On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 6:16 AM, Damien Pollet <damien.pollet@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 April 2016 at 22:57, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
>>
>> Since we are simpler and more logical, a cheat sheet should not confuse
>> people by describing what we are not.
>
>
> I beg to disagree. "Simpler and more logical" is just your biased point of
> view; fact is, zero-based indexing is just more widespread in programming
> languages.
>
> I would be happy to be proven wrong about that, but I seriously doubt most
> people that come to Smalltalk have never been exposed to programming before.
> It's not unreasonable to assume that they've started programming in any one
> of the most popular languages these days, and that that language is
> zero-indexed. So mentioning that in Smalltalk the first element is indeed at
> index 1 is pretty essential, if just to lift the ambiguity.

+1.�� But to follow Sven's point exactly.�� We don't need to say we are
"not 0 based", just that we are "1�� based".

cheers -ben