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aiiane
on Oct 23, 2013
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Why Python uses 0-based indexing. It's because of ...
Also loops will potentially behave awkwardly, due to the table having shifted into dictionary-esq indexing.
anonymoushn
on Oct 23, 2013
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This won't be a big deal. The 0 key will be in the hash part, and the 1-#t keys will be in the array part. The language doesn't expose the distinction, so the loop-related awkwardness is limited to a tiny performance hit.
ufo
on Oct 24, 2013
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If you try to use ipairs to iterate then it will skip the zero-th index but if you use a numeric for loop (for i=0,N do) then you should be fine.
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