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		Avshalom on Feb 18, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Node-APL: APL interpreter written in JavaScript >> non-zero index origin (⎕IO) eeeh, that's kind of an issue. A lot of apl assumes ⎕IO←1

throwaway7645 on Feb 18, 2018 [–]

I ran into this recently myself. The default implementation is 1 based, but a lot of APL users override it to 0, so that trips up a lot of beginners.

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