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8 months ago
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Migrating away from Rust
The ground floor in lifts isn't "1", it is "G". Same thing.
carlmr
8 months ago
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Country dependent. Like there are 1-based indexing languages (Lua, Matlab, et al)
pjmlp
8 months ago
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And others like Pascal linage (Pascal, Object Pascal, Extended Pascal, Modula-2, Ada, Oberon,...), that have flexible bounds, they can be whatever numeric subranges we feel like using, or enumeration values.
Ygg2
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Actually some lifts don't start with G but -2, because basement exists.
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