On 2010-08-13, Thomas Jollans <tho...@jollans.com> wrote: > 1-based indexing might seam more intuitive, but in the end, > it's just another thing you have to learn when learning a > language, like "commas make tuples", and somebody studying a > programming language learns it, and gets used to it if they > aren't used to it already.
I think the main reason zero-based indexing is chosen in higher level languages is the following useful property: x[n:m] + x[m:len(x)] == x -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
