I found it devastating that there are no distinct agreed-upon words denoting zero- and one-based addressing. Initially I thought that the word "index" clearly denotes zero-base, and for one-base there is "order", "position", "rank" or some other word, but after rather painful and humiliating research I stood corrected. ("Index" is really used in both meanings, and without prior knowledge of the context, there is really no way to tell what base it refers to.)
So to be clear, we have to tediously specify "z e r o - b a s e d " or "o n e - b a s e d" every single time to avoid confusion. (Is there a chance for creating some new, terser consensus here?)
So to be clear, we have to tediously specify "z e r o - b a s e d " or "o n e - b a s e d" every single time to avoid confusion. (Is there a chance for creating some new, terser consensus here?)