Re: 1-based indexing in Lua

[Oliver Kroth <oliver.kroth@...>]

Am 03.04.2018 um 15:02 schrieb Ahmed Charles:
> Written before I was born, EWD831 
> (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html) 
> describes why 0 based ranges are superior better than I can. It has 
> nothing to do with programming languages and everything to do with math. 
Actually, Dijkstra just prefers to have items counted like 0,...,N-1 
instead of 1,...,N
odd.

When I count things, let's say, cows, I start with the first cow and say 
"one", second cow "two",  third cow counted "three"...
I would not start with the first cow and say "zero", I say "zero" when 
there is no cow at all.
A zero-th cow is the cow in the empty corral, and actually "not a cow"...

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Oliver