Re:Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize f...
by wwweston on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:58AM
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> It's not the 0th element. It is the 1st element and has an offset of 0 from the beginning of the array.
This is why I think the terminology should be "indexed arrays" and "offset arrays" (and variables perhaps even called index/idx/i or offset/ofst/o as appropriate) instead of using the terms "0-indexed" or "1-indexed."
But I have a hard enough time getting out of the habit myself, and some people are going to hate using o as a variable, so....
This is why I think the terminology should be "indexed arrays" and "offset arrays" (and variables perhaps even called index/idx/i or offset/ofst/o as appropriate) instead of using the terms "0-indexed" or "1-indexed."
But I have a hard enough time getting out of the habit myself, and some people are going to hate using o as a variable, so....