On 2015-09-08 23:41, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 08/09/2015 18:41, MRAB wrote:
On 2015-09-08 15:31, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 5:55 AM, Vladimir Ignatov <kmis...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I had some experience programming in Lua and I'd say - that language
is bad example to follow.
Indexes start with 1 (I am not kidding)
What is so bad about that?
It's different from the rest 99.9% of languages for no particular
reason.
It's not "different from the rest 99.9% of languages". There are many
languages that use 1-based indexing, e.g. Matlab, Pascal, Fortran.
In Pascal you specify both the lower and the upper bounds.
I vaguely recall that in CORAL66/250 you specified both bounds and the
lower bound could be negative. Do other languages allow this or does
the lower bound always have to be positive?
If you're allowed to specify both bounds, why would you be forbidden
from negative ones?
A better question would be whether there's a language that allows you
to specify a lower bound, but insists that it's non-negative.
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