Re: 0-based versus 1-based

On Thursday 27 September 2001 23:16, Tom Pledger wrote:

Just as a matter of idle curiosity, is there a particular reason for tuples starting at element 1 (fst) whereas lists start at element 0?

fst ('x', 'y') --> 'x' "xy" !! 1 --> 'y'

xs = [1,2,3,4] If I were to ask you which one is the first element of xs would you answer, 2 because xs!!1 == 2? :) J.A.