Re: Vote: Should $PARALLEL_PID {#} count from 0 or 1

[Jay Hacker]

I vote for 0:

* Arrays in most programming languages start at 0
* Unix tools that produce multiple files start at 0: split, csplit,
ImageMagick, pamsplit...
* Hadoop output files start at 0
* Integer division of N things numbered 0..N-1 by N maps consecutive
items the same group; 1..N does not
* Integer remainder of N things numbered 0..N-1 mod N gives nice,
ordered round-robin groups; 1..N does not
* Most clusters name their machines node000-nodeXXX
* Having to escape $(( {#} - 1 )) in Bash is not pretty


I also vote for something like {N} or {##} to get the total number of
jobs, and a switch a la 'seq -w' to pad {#} with zeros.



On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Ole Tange <tange@gnu.org> wrote:
> I have implemented {#} as an alias for  $PARALLEL_PID in the current
> Git version. See http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?33005
>
> It currently counts from 1 just like $PARALLEL_PID.
>
> Dear users: Would you prefer it counts from 0 or from 1? Please elaborate why.
>
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> /Ole
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