Re: I prefer my indexes to start at:

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Re^2: I prefer my indexes to start at: by Perlbotics (Archbishop) on Sep 02, 2022 at 19:05 UTC
Pointer arithmetic and calculation of memory addresses, esp. for arrays, becomes easier when starting index is zero.	[reply]
Re^2: I prefer my indexes to start at: by NERDVANA (Priest) on Sep 06, 2022 at 23:31 UTC
Depends whether you need your first fence post at "zero feet from the wall". ;-)	[reply]
Re^3: I prefer my indexes to start at: by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Sep 09, 2022 at 14:22 UTC
Are you attaching your fencing directly to the wall? If not, you need a post there to support it.	[reply]
Re^2: I prefer my indexes to start at: by ninto1 (Novice) on Sep 05, 2022 at 13:31 UTC
Isn't it more efficient in binary? Example for 4 bit: 0000 = 0 0001 = 1 0010 = 2 -... And starting at 1 would waste the 0000 state. I think this is why starting at 0 is the more natural way to count in basic electronics in my opinion, which is how I think it made its way into C. Nowadays it is almost obsolete, but changing so old standards can often be hard to become used to for expierienced programmers, and those mistakes mostly just happen to novice ones, who are not the ones designing new languages. Hope I could make you see another side of this debate. Greetings, Ninto	[reply]