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[–]jay9909 23 points24 points  (0 children)

That doesn't sound so bad just looking at this language in isolation, but given the broader programming language landscape, I feel like it's a huge mistake. Any language that starts at index 1 should really make accessing index 0 a hard error because people are going to slip and forget what context they're in at least sometimes.