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		ternaryoperator on Aug 17, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why numbering should start at zero (1982) Stan Kelly-Bootle's famous bon mot on the subject: "Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration."

flukus on Aug 17, 2018 [–]

That's a genius way to avoid fence post errors (http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/~moniot/Opinions/fencepost-error-...).

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