[Python-ideas] 0-base and 1-base indexed iterables? Custom slicing rules?

[David Mertz]

The strongest proof that mixed index bases are a bad idea is that this is a
valid statement in VB6:

  Dim array(1 to 10) as Integer

For all X, if VB6 allows X, then X is a bad idea. :-)

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