When the CPU writes to the RAM the 0th location can be written to also. When you alter components of a language for example changing the way an list is indexed you have to be careful because you can accidently jump out of bounds!
http://www.goldwatches.com/watches.asp?Brand=39 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Gailer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <tutor@python.org> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 12:03 AM Subject: Re: [Tutor] I want some help with arrays... > James Matthews wrote: >> Also computer start counting from 0 > No no. Computers don't count. Programs count. And they start whereever you > program them to start. > Recall that humans count from 1 because of some historic evolution. The > introduction of zero into human arithmetic came many centuries after > counting. And met with much initial resistance. > The origin for array indexes is also varied in its evolution. FORTRAN > arrays are indexed starting at 1. In some languages you can specify the > range of indexes as in dimension a (1900:2030) if you want to use the > year as an index and don't care about years outside the range 1900..2030. >> you can change this when you learn the language more but it isn't >> recommended! >> > Oh? who disrecommends it? > > -- > Bob Gailer > 510-978-4454 > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
