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MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

One possibility could be because in conventional “computer counting” in (most) coding languages, it starts at zero. Like if I make an array of things

[monke, chimp, peanut]

monke would be [0]

chimp would be[1]

peanut would be [2]

Once I learned about this concept I started naming enumerated things from 0 usually just to keep a kind of consistency. Maybe I think if it’s a habit, I won’t make those mistakes with code. :p

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Use Lua, it uses one-based arrays. This is nice for a few reasons:

last element is array[length]

zero can be reserved for the type (especially nice for representing XML: 0 = node name, 1-N = children, named table entries = attributes)

very rarely see + 1 and - 1 in my code

It feels wrong coming from C, but it’s actually really nice, especially since the reasons C does it don’t apply (i.e. index is just a memory offset).
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