From: Sy Ali <sy1234@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T13:43:36+09:00
Subject: Re: The Pebble in the Ruby Shoe

On 7/18/07, Phlip <phlipcpp@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Imagine a language that used 1-based indexing. It would make working in
> 0-based appallingly hard even for simple situations. So we would prefer this
> slippery slope to slide in the correct direction.

I'm a very young programmer, and I've known about this 0 vs 1 issue
for a while now.  Phlip's comment above is very good at explaining the
reason behind it, but I've had a hard time truly grasping it.

Is anyone willing to show some snippets of Ruby code which could
demonstrate the challenge of working with 1-based arrays?  There were
some snippets in previous messages but they were too partial for me to
really understand things..