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Re:Lua Doesn't Suck – Strange Loop 2010 20-minute talk video by JulianMorrison on Sunday October 17, 2010 @05:35AM (#1800000)
What do you object to in counting from 1? (Other than it's not traditional.)

In C, it's an offset into a typed block of memory, so 0 indexing makes sense. But lua does not deal directly with memory.

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Re:Lua Doesn't Suck – Strange Loop 2010 20-minute talk video by __david__ on Sunday October 17, 2010 @06:48AM (#1800079)
It has nothing to do with indexing memory--it has to do with 1 based arrays causing "+1" and "-1" to be sprinkled all oever the place. I find Dykstra's argument to be compelling: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...
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Re:Lua Doesn't Suck – Strange Loop 2010 20-minute talk video by kemayo on Sunday October 17, 2010 @12:18PM (#1800682)
My experience with Lua hasn't seen this problem materialize.
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