On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 6:16 AM, Damien Pollet <damien.pol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8 April 2016 at 22:57, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: >> >> Since we are simpler and more logical, a cheat sheet should not confuse >> people by describing what we are not. > > > I beg to disagree. "Simpler and more logical" is just your biased point of > view; fact is, zero-based indexing is just more widespread in programming > languages. > > I would be happy to be proven wrong about that, but I seriously doubt most > people that come to Smalltalk have never been exposed to programming before. > It's not unreasonable to assume that they've started programming in any one > of the most popular languages these days, and that that language is > zero-indexed. So mentioning that in Smalltalk the first element is indeed at > index 1 is pretty essential, if just to lift the ambiguity.
+1. But to follow Sven's point exactly. We don't need to say we are "not 0 based", just that we are "1 based". cheers -ben
