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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | Re: Noob question: why sequences, lists in particular start at index 0 in Elisp? |
| Date: | Sun, 08 Nov 2020 09:42:42 -0500 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I understand why they do so in C; but why in Elisp?
Why should it be different in ELisp?
AFAIK, indexing should always be 0-based, so we don't get into silly "is
1900 in the 19th century or the 20th century". And indeed computer
science got this mostly right, except for Fortran arrays and
Emacs buffers.
Stefan
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