From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Noob question: why sequences, lists in particular start at index 0 in Elisp?
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2020 18:16:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o8k76cy4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VI1PR06MB4526260B8DE550FB0A5EDE2796EB0@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> (message from Arthur Miller on Sun, 08 Nov 2020 17:04:44 +0100)
> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2020 17:04:44 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Numerical Recipes had nice practice for their code; they would type
> pointer-- on base pointer so they could write algorithms as in
> [1,length] (and yes I know they abandoned the practice in C++ edition).
Numerical Recipes started in Fortran, didn't they?
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-08 13:32 Noob question: why sequences, lists in particular start at index 0 in Elisp? Arthur Miller
2020-11-08 14:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-08 16:04 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-08 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-11-08 15:42 ` Philipp Stephani
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