David Ashley wrote:
C uses zero-based indexes for thing like
memory, array positions, etc. My code could be architected to either
carry this forward to the ooRexx interface when it calls the C functions
or it could translate the zero-based numbers to the more user friendly
(and Rexx default) one-based numbering system.
I have no specific suggestion, but I do have a vivid recollection of the era
when Language Wars ruled the virtual world and the 1-basers and 0-basers
were locked in conflict.
During that time I sat on the X3J14 committee for ANS Forth. One of our
discussions (on whether the Forth word NOT was to be logical or bitwise
inversion) grew so ridiculously heated that one member wrote to then-
President George H. W. Bush to ask him to intervene to save the purity
of the Forth programming language!
The conclusion I draw from this:
It doesn't make a bit of difference. /None whatsoever/. Isn't worth the
time it takes to think about it. Consult your own convenience, and
if the users don't like it, they roll their own.
--
Jack J. Woehr # Reality is unpredictable, and no amount of computer
technology
http://www.well.com/~jax # is going to change that. - David Brooks, conservative pundit,
http://www.softwoehr.com # "The God That Fails", 2009-12-31 New York Times
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