And here I thought it was just because 0 comes before 1 ;-)
On 27 Dec 2005, at 07:16, Adriano Ferreira wrote:
I am curious what the reasoning behind the first element of something being zero is ($array[0]). I know I've read it before, but I can't remember. Thanks!Using indices 0 .. n make it possible to work with them like offsets from the beginning of the array. More important from a C point of view, where it may even improve performance. Ah, and for loops are shorter by one character ;) for ( $i=0; $i<$n; $i++ ) { .. } rather than for ( $i=1; $i<=$n; $i++ ) { ... } -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
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