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2025-07-08,
of indexes and shibboleths

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2017-08-21 – Nikon D3300
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Dead or Alive You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) ↗

one of the biggest whinges against Lua from people who really should know better is that array indexes start at 1! – for those not in the know, Lua doesn’t have arrays, its primary data structure is the table – you can use an integer key to access elements, but since it’s an integer index key, not a memory offset, there’s no reason to maintain a hacker shibboleth that is a 1980s joke rooted in erroneous overgeneralizations of C

License terms should start at index 0 just like GPL ↗

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