Disclaimer: I am not familiar with the background discussions so please let me know if I'm completely missing the point. but...it would make sense to me to aim to have everything default to 0-based indexing. Ruby has 0-based indexing (for arrays at least). I forget enough things already, so I'd prefer to not have to remember when I need to use which indexing.
In hindsight, we wish we had started with 0-based indexing for just this reason. The problem is what do we do about all the existing tests that use 1-based indexing. This suggests that we have to make it a configurable option -- and maybe change the default to 0-based, but make it easy for the 1-based tests to continue to work.
Does this make sense?
Bret
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