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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Aren't those two the same thing? At least in C-style arrays, which might not be how they're handled under the hood, but is at least how most languages present it to the programmer.

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[–] lefixxx@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Yes they are presented in the programmer wrong. The first thing in memory should have offset 0 and index 1

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[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

in my understanding offset is technically the "relative index", or how much you have to go further

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