[fpc-pascal] a few trivial questions

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Thu May 13 14:22:28 CEST 2010


In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> At one point fpGUI switched all list type components to be 1-based. This
> caused such a lot of issues that I very quickly switched it back to
> 0-based. Why? Because even though my components were 1-based, the FPC lists
> where 0-based. So I had to very carefully keep track of which one uses what
> and often made mistakes. I personally hate 0-based counting because no
> human counts 0, 1, 2 etc.. 

Hmm. The fact they don't name a state out loud, doesn't really mean it
doesn't exist in their "model". "nothing" is a perfectly human term. It is
just considered default and thus not stated.



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