* Re: STRING starts at 1: why?
@ 1993-01-06 7:57 Richard Pattis
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From: Richard Pattis @ 1993-01-06 7:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
I actually once had a list of reasons to start arrays at 0 vs 1, which I've
conveniently lost. In the spirit of starting a new one, I'll try to recall what
I can from the old list. An array that is a STRING probably has other special
properties.
Start at 1:
'LENGTH is same as 'LAST
Negated indexes are unique (I used this fact once in a program)
Start at 0:
Mod works better (for hashing)
Convient when doing work with 'polynomial-like' things
Rich
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