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Re: Ideas behind programming language syntax choices?

From John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Ideas behind programming language syntax choices?
Date 2018-10-07 10:14 +0100
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On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 18:04:25 +0200, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
<PointedEars@web.de> wrote:

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>John G Harris wrote:
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Dear me, a 3 line attribution novel from Thomas!


>> What people intend to do with a[3] is to get hold of the value held in
>> element 3 of the array and do something with it.
>
>element _4_, as the index is usually 0-based

What a load of bollocks.

Element 0 is the first element.
Element 1 is the second element.
Element 2 is the third element.
Element 3 is the fourth element, not element 4 as any fule kno.

  John

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