From: Adrian Howard <adrianh@...>
Date: 2007-07-17T21:58:35+09:00
Subject: Re: The Pebble in the Ruby Shoe


On 16 Jul 2007, at 19:22, Lloyd Linklater wrote:

> Tim Pease wrote:
>> Actually, if Ruby had been implemented in Fortran or Pascal, then  
>> most
>> certainly arrays would have begun indexing with 1 instead of 0.
>
> Ok, I know that this is not a Ruby point, but I feel compelled to
> respond.  The basic array in Pascal is zero based.
[snip]

Fortran doesn't care much either. There's a convention for starting  
at 1, but the language allows you to specify an arbitrary index range  
for your arrays.

Adrian