Re:Array Languages: R vs. APL
by crest on Thursday March 21, 2024 @11:02PM
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Unspeakable horrors like changing `$[` in old Perl5 versions to mess with someone's mind? Who doesn't like array indices starting at 0, 1, ... or 42?
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Re:Array Languages: R vs. APL
by jonocarroll on Sunday March 24, 2024 @09:05PM
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In Dyalog APL you can set the index origin with βIOβ0 (or 1) and there are many ways in which this can bite you. In Lua, and I think Fortran, you can specify the range of array indices manually.