On 8/7/2010 5:00 AM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
On 08/07/2010 05:05 AM, Default User wrote:
> From "the emperor's new clothes" department:
1) Why do Python lists start with element [0], instead of element [1]?
"Common sense" would seem to suggest that lists should start with [1].
As others have pointed out, there is a nice argument to be made for
zero-based indices. However, the killer reason is: "it's what everybody
else does."
FORTRAN, MATLAB, and Octave all use 1-based subscripts.
The languages which have real multidimensional arrays, rather
than arrays of arrays, tend to use 1-based subscripts. That
reflects standard practice in mathematics.
John Nagle
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