From: "ornil1@..." <ornil1@...>
Date: 2005-04-11T14:54:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#last_index

>Hmmm... perhaps. I was thinking of it along the lines of the phrase
>"zero to n". 'n' is unknown, and thus nth asks what is the nth
>position? Granted, it's not perfect, but it is nice-and-short.

Please choose another name, it's very confusing. In Lisp there's a
function called "nth" and it takes a number and a list, returning the
nth element of a list. See, for example here:
http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs-lisp-intro/emacs-lisp-intro_117.html

So any Lisp hacker would assume wrong semantics for it.