From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: Zsh list <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: zero- vs one- based array indexing?
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:03:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909231703.n8NH3sQ3031330@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19130.20939.395217.755549@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
Greg Klanderman wrote:
> Can someone give me a quick history of why zsh defaults to one-based
> array indexing? Bash and ksh appear to use zero-based indexing, and
> probably most CS types prefer that too.
Basically from csh, I think. Arrays were a bit of an afterthought in
earlier Bourne-style shells, so zsh didn't take much notice.
> Would it be OK to add an
> option to control just zero-based arrays separately from the other
> changes KSHARRAYS brings?
It's far too late for this. Encouraging people to use anything other
than native zsh or ksh emulation would be a disaster, multiplying our
problems yet more and solving nothing.
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2009-09-23 16:50 Greg Klanderman
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