Some Insights from a Julia Developer

Re:Some Insights from a Julia Developer by Bromskloss on Saturday October 14, 2017 @07:36PM (#15474929)

Is it possible that the argument to `head` is the _number_ of elements to return, and that the choice of indexing therefore doesn't enter the picture?

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Re:Some Insights from a Julia Developer by Bromskloss on Sunday October 15, 2017 @12:06AM (#15475839)

Actually, even if the argument (3 in this case) were an index, I would expect it to be the index of the first element _not_ to fetch, like how intervals typically are written with an inclusive lower bound and an exclusive upper bound as in "2 ≤ i < 13" [0]. That would make the result you're getting consistent with zero-indexing, but not with one-indexing.

Of course, I don't know what Pandas is like outside this particular example, or what Pandas even is. A database thing?

[0] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF

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