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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The problem is that they both are contextual and can mean any position in a list/array. The starting index or starting offset is generally zero, but could be one, depending on the language used.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

i wonder why people haven’t made a language that starts indexing at 2 yet. maybe some day

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe this could be a feature in brainfuck or COBOL.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[–] Vorthas@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dreamberd starts array indexing at -1 instead of 0 or 1.

https://github.com/TodePond/DreamBerd

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

what a beautiful language