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Re: The perpetual calendar
Posted:
Feb 26, 2010 2:21 PM
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On Feb 26, 12:33 pm, Roland Hutchinson <my.spamt...@verizon.net>
wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:00:40 +1100, Peter Moylan wrote:
> > Adam Funk wrote:
> >> On 2010-02-24, Bob Myers wrote:
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> >>> Andrew Usher wrote:
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> >>>> Well, I'm astounded. Indexing from 0 is so obviously the Right Way
> >>>> that I can't imagine why anyone would do it the other way.
> >>> Oh, absolutely. Why, I see people in the stores every day, counting
> >>> out their money or the number of items they're going to purchase, and
> >>> saying to themselves "Zero, one, two..."
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> >> The initialized state of my shopping basket contains 0 items. Each
> >> item I put in increments it. If I initialized at 1, my shopping would
> >> crash with a 1-off error on unpacking.
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> > If your shopping basket had been designed by a C programmer, its initial
> > state would be the state just before the zeroth item was inserted. That
> > suggests that initially the basket contains -1 items.
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> "So I said to him, 'Moore, have you less than no apples in that
> basket?"..."
False, of course.
>
> --
> Roland Hutchinson
>
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