Indexes do start at one. Offsets start at zero.
If you have a table of 5 apples and the middle one is rotten do you say the rotten one is the 2nd or 3rd?
If you have a table of 5 apples and the middle one is rotten do you say the rotten one is the 2nd or 3rd?
I was referring to this:
"it is customary in Lua to start arrays with index 1" [1]
Not being a native English speaker, I may have phrased something wrong. I find "one-based indexing" in arrays not particular intuitive, and error-prone.
Better?
Obviously I use 0 based indexes for most of my programming. I have not found 1 based indexing to be a serious problem since Lua is a high enough language that I'm rarely doing complex index arithmetic.
FYI I didn't downvote you.