From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Noob question: why sequences, lists in particular start at index 0 in Elisp?
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2020 16:42:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkQOpL03B1=1aQLWSTiNe7+KPLVRrR2nsZ_jCTzvZtN=9g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VI1PR06MB4526D9259AFBC8E9C71D211396EB0@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com>
Am So., 8. Nov. 2020 um 14:33 Uhr schrieb Arthur Miller
<arthur.miller@live.com>:
>
> I understand why they do so in C; but why in Elisp?
>
> Just a curious question.
>
See https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html
for a classic language-independent argument.
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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
2020-11-08 15:42 ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
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