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		Fraterkes 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Index, Count, Offset, Size I think that many obo errors are caused by common situations where people can mistakenly mix up index and count. You could eliminate a (small) set of those situations with 1-based indexing: accessing items from the ends of arrays/lists.

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meindnoch 10 days ago [–]

And in turn you'd introduce off by one errors when people confuse the new 1-based indexes with offsets (which are inherently 0-based).

So yeah, no. People smarter than you have thought about this before.

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