On Aug 7, 2010, at 2:54 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
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.
A new born baby is in his/her first year. It's year 1 of his/her life.
For this reason, also "the year 0" doesn't exist. From the fact that a
baby can be half a year old, you derive that arrays should have floats
as indices?
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