Blair Sutton writes: > David Green wrote: > > > In some ways, I like not having a [0] index at all: programmers may > > be used to counting from zero, but normal humans start with first, > > second, third, ... third last, second last,... > > My feelings are Perl 6 should stick to 0 being the index of the first > element of a list. Otherwise we might alienate programmers from P5 and > nearly every other language. Couldn't the first array index be > adjusted by adding a user defined Parrot grammar definition that > applies the transformation +1 inside [] operators instead; maybe this > could be accessible via a Perl "use" pragma.
Hmmm, a pragma's a bit heavyweight for this; how about being able to set this with a special global variable -- that sure sounds handy ... Smylers
