On Tuesday, 29 April 2014 at 14:53:48 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
I'd say, for a math-oriented language starting position 1 is more meaningful than starting offset 0, the latter is an idiom for system programming language, the former better corresponds to mathematical formalism.
An argument for zero-based indexing from Dijkstra: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html
