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minus-squareKerb@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-24 months agothats probably taking the piss with how lua handles array indexing. in most programming languages, the first element of an array is element 0, in lua arrays start with element 1. imo it kinda makes sense, but it causes confusion because it goes against established conventions
minus-squareAmaltheamannen@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoThe reason for the convention is that it used to be just a pointer (adress) to consecutive elements in memory. A[x] is then literally translated to the adress of A + sizeof(x)*x. Meaning that the first element is at A[0].
thats probably taking the piss with how lua handles array indexing.
in most programming languages,
the first element of an array is element 0,
in lua arrays start with element 1.
imo it kinda makes sense,
but it causes confusion because it goes against established conventions
The reason for the convention is that it used to be just a pointer (adress) to consecutive elements in memory. A[x] is then literally translated to the adress of A + sizeof(x)*x. Meaning that the first element is at A[0].