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
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