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Re: Noob question: why sequences, lists in particular start at index 0 i
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Noob question: why sequences, lists in particular start at index 0 in Elisp? |
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Sun, 08 Nov 2020 18:16:51 +0200 |
> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2020 17:04:44 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
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> 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?