On 2002-12-06 at 17:59:33, Larry Wall wrote:
Now all we have to do is
convince everyone that the year 1 B.C. is the same as year 0 A.D.,
and 2 B.C. is the same as -1 A.D., and so on.
Well, since that's already true, it hopefully won't take much
convincing. :) If you mean to convince the
On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 14:16:43 +, Brad Hughes wrote:
In any case, the choice of default base index is less important for Perl than
for other languages given how seldom arrays in Perl are accessed by index as
opposed to manipulated by push, pop, for $x (@array) loops and such.
I slice a lot
On 05/12/02 02:45 -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
I'm going to ask something that's probably going to launch off into a long,
silly thread. But I'm really curious what the results will be so I'll ask
it anyway. Think of it as an experiment.
So here's your essay topic:
Explain how having
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:45:39AM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Explain how having indexes (arrays, substr, etc...) in Perl 6 start at 0
will benefit most users. Do not invoke legacy. [1]
Answer 1: Ignoring legacy, it won't.
Answer 2: Because C uses 0-based indexes, Parrot is written in C,
2002-12-05 10:45:39, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm going to ask something that's probably going to launch off into a
long, silly thread. But I'm really curious what the results will be so
I'll ask it anyway. Think of it as an experiment.
So here's your essay topic:
Damien Neil wrote:
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:45:39AM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Explain how having indexes (arrays, substr, etc...) in Perl 6 start at 0
will benefit most users. Do not invoke legacy. [1]
Answer 1: Ignoring legacy, it won't.
Bingo.
Answer 2: Because C uses 0-based
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:45:39AM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
: I'm going to ask something that's probably going to launch off into a long,
: silly thread. But I'm really curious what the results will be so I'll ask
: it anyway. Think of it as an experiment.
:
: So here's your essay topic:
Larry wrote:
: Explain how having indexes (arrays, substr, etc...) in Perl 6 start at 0
: will benefit most users. Do not invoke legacy. [1]
How about, because I like it? You may, of course, see that as a
legacy argument, depending on our relative ages... :-)
A practical argument in its
DC == Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DC A practical argument in its favour is that it makes
DC circular-lists-via-modulo:
DC @list[++nextidx%7] = $nextval;
DC $day_name = Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat[$day%7];
DC both work correctly.
not to defend 1 based arrays but all
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I'm going to ask something
On Thu 05 Dec, Michael G Schwern wrote:
So here's your essay topic:
Explain how having indexes (arrays, substr, etc...) in Perl 6 start at 0
will benefit most users. Do not invoke legacy. [1]
[1] ie. because that's how most other languages do it or everyone is
used to it by now are not
Explain how having indexes (arrays, substr, etc...) in Perl 6 start
at 0 will benefit most users.
The languages which do not start their indices at 0 are dead or dying.
Do not invoke legacy.
How about FUD? :-)
=Austin
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I'm going to ask
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