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Off by one solitude (fed.dyne.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe this could be a feature in brainfuck or COBOL.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

god i hope so

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

https://github.com/TodePond/DreamBerd

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

what a beautiful language