I have little formal training in computer science - maybe two classes in total - but I've been working with software for (mumble) decades, both professionally and for fun.
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
