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Re: LSR search is broken
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: LSR search is broken |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:26:08 +0200 (CEST) |
> > Seriously... is one-indexing the LSR code (which is clearly
> > zero-indexed) difficult for some reason? In all the programming
> > I've done — including Java, etc. — I've found reindexing to be
> > fairly easy, in general...
>
> One-indexing is brain damaged. See EWD831:
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html
This might be true for Mathematics, but not for `real' life: If there
are four items lying on the table, and you have to enumerate them,
most people will call them item 1 to item 4, and *not* item 0 to
item 3. Please change this.
Werner