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jballanc on Feb 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Julia Programming Language

With 1-based indexing, length == last index.

Does 0-based indexing have any advantage, beyond ability to do pointer arithmetic with indexes?

scott_s on Feb 19, 2012 [–]

In 0-based indexing, n % length is a value inside the range.

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