[Wtr-general] Proposal for supporting multiple attributes

[Bret Pettichord]

On 6/7/06, Lillis, Dara <dara.lillis at kiodex.com> wrote:
>
>  Disclaimer: I am not familiar with the background discussions so please
> let me know if I'm completely missing the point. but...
>
> it would make sense to me to aim to have everything default to 0-based
> indexing. Ruby has 0-based indexing (for arrays at least). I forget enough
> things already, so I'd prefer to not have to remember when I need to use
> which indexing.
>

In hindsight, we wish we had started with 0-based indexing for just this
reason. The problem is what do we do about all the existing tests that use
1-based indexing. This suggests that we have to make it a configurable
option -- and maybe change the default to 0-based, but make it easy for the
1-based tests to continue to work.

Does this make sense?

Bret
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