Default User wrote:
Not to prolong a good "food fight", but IIRC, many years ago in QBasic,
one could choose
OPTION BASE 0
or
OPTION BASE 1
to make arrays start with element [0] or element [1], respectively.
Could such a feature be added to Python without significantly bloating
the interpreter?
Then, if starting with [0] "works for you", nothing really changes. And
if starting with [1] "works for you", then you are not made to feel like
a second-class citizen, and about as welcome as a dimwit at the Mensa
meeting.
If you changed the base then you'd break the standard library, unless
everyone altered their code to compensate.
It's all part of learning a programming language. Some have 0-based
indexing, others have 1-based indexing; some have mutable strings,
others have immutable strings, still others don't have 'proper' strings.
Just learn to adapt.
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