It might make sense to you, but chances are that it won't for the maintainers of your code. Arrays in most languages I know start at index 0, I am not sure going against such a common characteristic is such a good idea.

we never call first as "0", we always call first as '1'. so this lead to this thinking.

Really?

• The first km my car drove was km 0000000 on the odometer.
• The first inch on a ruler is inch zero.
• The first century AD was century zero.
• The first raffle ticket on the spool is xxx000.

It's not exactly a foreign concept.

The first century AD was century zero.

I thought the first century A.D. was century 1, the first year of which was year 1 A.D. (with the year before being 1 B.C.), the concept of "zero" not percolating into European thought until some non-zero number of centuries later. Which is why, twenty centuries later, we are stuck with 2001 being the first year of the twenty-first century.

> the first year of which was year 1 A.D. (with the year before being 1 B.C.)

Actually the troubles arising from not having a year 0 are a very good argument for arrays starting with 0. :)

Cheers Rolf
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oops, fixed.