Re: hosers-talk: Resolved

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake "Jon Stewart":
> WHEREAS the "base and offset" method of indexing into a random access 
> array or container or collection or other grouping of similar data types 
> lends itself to some convenient solutions, and,
> 
> WHEREAS the venerable C programming language uses this method for its 
> built-in arrays, starting from zero, and by force of personality has 
> established it as the dominant indexing idiom world-wide, and,
> 
> WHEREAS counting from 1, while intuitive to the uninitiated programmer, 
> has some mathematical disadvantages, and,
> 
> WHEREAS switching between these two methods of indexing in the same
> context can lead to numerous off-by-one errors, general confusion, low
> morale, mind-numbing boredom, and mass hysteria,
> 
> IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED that all indexing should use the base-and-offset 
> method, starting at 0, and that all programming languages should support 
> this, and only this, method, and that all programmers should adhere to it 
> strictly in all cases, upon penalty of death and dismemberment, including, 
> but not limited to, the Visual Basic development team at Microsoft, Inc.
> 
> January 4, 2002.
> 
> 
> 
> Jon

Duly noted as Resolution 0. Heh.

-- 
J.