Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming

Re:Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming by kyawzazaw on Thursday April 09, 2020 @03:12PM (#22826095)

CS student here so not much of a highly valued input.

Once I knew these two facts, it didn't add much confusion.

1. Indexing starts from 0

2. Thus, range can be thought "from up to one before x", x here would be 15.

And I learned this pretty early and did not get confused later on.

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Re:Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming by microtherion on Thursday April 09, 2020 @05:00PM (#22827145)

You learned it for one language. Now imagine that you're working with a handful of languages regularly, some of which have 1-based indexing, some 0-based, some of which may have closed ranges, others half-open ranges.

If you're anything like me, you'll end up spending quite a bit of time looking up the documentation to the range operator to remind yourself how this week's language works again.

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