So they were dated the same day exactly 6 yrs apart. What a crazy coincidence.

Lua Dipa?

🎶her name was lua🎶 🎶she was a coder🎶

indeed. permanently off by 1.

hey no you can't logic your way out of this! i wanted an argument!

it also states in section 6.7.7 ("type names") that

If the pointer operand points to an element of an array object, and the array is large enough, the result points to an element offset from the original element such that the difference of the subscripts of the resulting and original array elements equals the integer expression.

note also that your example is the only occurrence of the word "index" in the entire document that isn't just referring to the actual index at the end.

if you want my opinion (<- see now you can't tell me i'm wrong, it's an opinion) then the difference is that an array is by definition a memory address that's designated as the beginning of an array, and it's got an offset because the first element is at that specific address and further items are offset from that address. so you add the offset to the address to get the nth item. a list, meanwhile, can be basically any implementation under the hood, but it's commonly a linked list. the way you get the nth index there is you count up from the first position. since the implementation is opaque and may be spread out in memory you can't arithmetic your way to an index, you need to follow the pointers.

java's arraylist is a list backed by an array. java's vector is a list backed by a linked list.

no? an offset is just a number that you add to an address to get a new number. and index in a generic position marker.

you can't spell offset without off. as in fuck.

(affectionate)

javascript doesn't have arrays. the backing data structure is a doubly-linked list.

Julia and Mathematica

TIL

Technically, VBA arrays start wherever you want them to and end wherever you want them to. Thing is, since VBA is usually interfacing with MS Office, you're heavily dependent on what the office APIs do. And unfortunately, they very often start counting with 1. So practically, you're generally starting your counting with 1.

Technically Real math only uses numbers.

But how will you use zero-indexing without the number zero?

Economics? Completely replaced by bistromathics

I want to see it no matter how bad it is.

Btw, the 2007 LAD movie is lit if you haven't seen it. It has a scene of drinking staminan in the middle of the fight. One of my favorite vg adaptations.