Bruno Desthuilliers bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr
Wed Oct 3 22:52:13 EDT 2007

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Wayne Brehaut a écrit :
> On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:12:04 +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers
> <bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
> 
> 
>>J. Clifford Dyer a écrit :
(snip)
>>>Well, it's also unpythonic to start numbering a sequence at 1, but
>>>it's clearly the right thing to do in this case.
>>
>>As far as I'm concerned, if I had to number a magazine about 
>>programming, I'd obviously start with 0.
> 
> And since the "first" issue is free that would be best here too.
> 
>>Then it would be n°1, n°10, 
>>n°11, n°100 etc !-)
> 
> But probably with enough leading zeros to last the expected lifetime
> (8 bits should about do it?)  so they'd sort properly:
> 
> 0000 0000
> 0000 0001
> etc.

Mmm... sort of reminds me of y2k.

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