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by DickieStarshine 1865 days ago
How is it nothing like Python?

1-based indexing is definitely not a flaw. And version 1.6 massively decreased package import and precompilation time.

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> 1-based indexing is definitely not a flaw.

It really is. We've known it for literally decades:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...

It really depends on what you do - sometimes offsets are better, sometimes an index is better. If you really want 0-based indexing, you can have it! https://github.com/JuliaArrays/OffsetArrays.jl

My own preference is random indexing, it's so much more exciting to be surprised https://www.juliabloggers.com/random-based-indexing-for-arra...