Agree. I came here to say that 0-based is more sensible, but as I thought through my arguments, I realised that I’m wrong. I do most of my coding in TS, Go and plpgsql. PL is 1 based, but the only time I find it frustrating is when translating between language boundaries. The rest of the time it’s just convention (eg, using <= instead of < in loops).
But I realised that I frequently want to get the last element in an array, and of course it’s easier with 1-based arrays.
So ultimately I don’t think it matters, except that most people are used to 0-based which can cause cognitive friction.
But I realised that I frequently want to get the last element in an array, and of course it’s easier with 1-based arrays.
So ultimately I don’t think it matters, except that most people are used to 0-based which can cause cognitive friction.