In lua, arrays starts at 1
What is this madness??

Late to the party :p

@alexbrooklyn That's what index 1 means LOL

Hey Lua, would you Pascal the salt please?

There was a great explanation on here a while back: https://devrant.com/rants/1327341/.... The short version is: Arrays in Lua start at 1 because they aren't actually arrays.

Array indices != pointer offset

Indices are a logical construct pointing to logical units of the array, offsets a physical one based on C's concept of arrays as a block of memory divided into equal sized chunks

C uses offsets as indices, but there's no reason why indices can't start at 1. We still say "first element" for C index/offset 0.

@Demolishun OMG Pascal, I began programming with that decades ago, and still feel dirty about it.

MS Excel wants to know your lpcation

What the fuck is lua

@scout embeddable scripting language often used in games for modding.

@Demolishun ooo okay. I’d never heard of it before, I’m getting out of touch

its a c wrapper, idk why they coukdn't start at 0. they bribg over so many more programming fundamentals, its weird to leave that one out

In real life, you start counting at 1. What ist this madnesssszzz???!!!oneoneeleven

❌❌❌Nope..

@Fast-Nop
How do you feel about Delphi then?

@SortOfTested I jumped away from the whole ecosystem after highschool and never looked back.

Also, that was decades before Lazarus so that Delphi was pretty much Windows-only, which was exactly one of the things that have always sucked with Pascal - the balcanisation.

@korrat This also means that you can make it start at 0, right?

@Fast-Nop
Always wondered how people in the Balkans felt about that term.

you missed out on the fun with Super Pascal Fighter Turbo Championship edition though.

@kescherRant yes. I fact you can make it anything. It's a key/value list.

By default it starts at 1 doesn't mean you can't make it starting from 0?

I use lua as an extension language binding with Fortran, both languages have array index starting from 1, I found it quite handy