Re:Some Insights from a Julia Developer
by goatlover on Sunday October 15, 2017 @12:41AM
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If some told me they got the "0th place trophy", I would take that to be a colorful way of saying they didn't win anything, as 0 means nothing, or the absence of trophies, in this case.
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Re:Some Insights from a Julia Developer
by Bromskloss on Sunday October 15, 2017 @01:19AM
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That's just an artefact of being used to a certain way, isn't it? For me, it's about finding fundamental reasons for one convention or another, not about the practicalities.
Re:Some Insights from a Julia Developer
by goatlover on Sunday October 15, 2017 @01:52AM
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The reason for not starting at zero for enumeration is that zero means a lack of things to count or list. Therefore, we should start with the one, since that's the first number where we would have reason to enumerate.