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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Wouldn't it be nice if documentation used the words index and offset consistently?

[–] dohpaz42 10 points 2 weeks ago (5 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 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

https://github.com/TodePond/DreamBerd

[–] affiliate 1 points 2 weeks ago

what a beautiful language

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