On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Marc Balmer <m...@msys.ch> wrote: > Am 15.10.13 23:01, schrieb Lourival Vieira Neto: > > [...] > >>> Also, having to switch mentally between zero-based arrays in the kernel C >>> code and 1-based arrays in the Lua code make my head ache. >> >> It's something that doesn't bug me so much.. But, if necessary it >> could be changed to 0-based in this userdata. > > In C an array index is actually an offset from the top, so 0 is the > natural way to denote element nr. 1 in C. In Lua, a numeric array index > is not an offset, but the ordinal array position. So 1 is the natural > way to denote the first element. > > Strictly speaking, it's actually C that is weird: Index n denotes array > element n + 1... > > Following the principle of least astonishment, I would not recommend > starting to do 0 based stuff in Lua, a Lua programmer certainly expects > things to start at 1. > > [...]
Indeed. -- Lourival Vieira Neto
