van Nek wrote:
> I think Maxima shouldn't be viewed from a programmers point of view but from a view of a
> user who wants to use a tool for mathematics but hasn't learnt any programming language.
> So indexing 1-based is OK to me.
1-based is ok with me too, but as an engineer I find that I use 0-based
more often.
I think that octave has some global variable that allows you to chose
what you want. I'm not proposing we do that, though.
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> Volker van Nek
>
> Am 13 Nov 2007 um 16:43 hat Stavros Macrakis geschrieben:
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>> On Nov 13, 2007 3:21 PM, apeditedirra unasaltao <pi_e_dra at yahoo.es> wrote:
>> suggestion: 0-based lists (like every other language)
Fortran defaults to 1-based if you're talking about arrays.
Ray