HallÃchen! Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Op 2005-04-20, Torsten Bronger schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> [...] >> >> It's interesting to muse about a language that starts at "1" for >> all arrays and strings, as some more or less obsolete languages >> do. I think this is more intuitive, since most people (including >> mathematicians) start counting at "1". The reason for starting >> at "0" is easier memory address calculation, so nothing for >> really high level languages. > > Personnaly I would like to have the choice. Sometimes I prefer to > start at 0, sometimes at 1 and other times at -13 or +7. In HTBasic you have the choice between 0 and 1; there is a global source code directive for it. However, hardly anybody really wants to use HTBasic. TschÃ, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
