On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:48:32 +0200 News123 <news1...@free.fr> wrote: > It makes sense in assembly language and even in many byte code languages. > It makes sense if you look at the internal representation of unsigned > numbers (which might become an index) > > For a complete beginner common sense dictates differently and there > might be confusion why the second element in a list has index 1.
Would said beginner also be surprised that a newborn baby is zero years old or would it be more natural to call them a one year old? Zero based counting is perfectly natural. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list