On Apr 15, 6:06 pm, "Beliavsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 14, 10:12 pm, "Paddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <snip> > > > So the running count is: > > Ayes to the left: VB compatibility. > > Nays to the right: QuadIO, Perl, Dijkstra paper. > > > The nays have it! > > One-based indexing would also Python more compatible with Fortran, > Matlab/Octave/Scilab, and S (the language of S-Plus and R). It appears > that engineers, scientists, and statisticians, as opposed to > professional programmers, like 1-based indexing. An obvious argument > for 1-based indexing in the FORmula TRANslation programming language > is that formulas involving arrays in textbooks almost always use 1- > based indexing.
I've seen plenty of examples of zero-based indexing in math textbooks. For example, the coefficients of polynomials and Fourier cosine series, both of which use a zero subscript for the constant term. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
