Ah, Bob Smith. I need to have a talk with him ... :-) What is your background please? Is it possible that you may be disqualified from this survey, unfortunately.
----- Original Message ----- From: Devon McCormick <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, July 24, 2010 10:01 Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] index origin 0 To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > I find index origin 0 to be the sensible choice, especially > given that we > can use _1 to index the last element of an array. I was > talking with Bob > Smith at BAPLA09 about indexing in NARS2000 - he was intrigued > by the idea > of using negative numbers to index from the end of an array but was > struggling to reconcile this with having a choice of index origin. > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have been asked by some APL colleagues about > > index origin 0 in J. The question is, does the choice > > of a fixed value of 0 for index origin a hindrance to ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
