Community Forums: [Suggestion] Character sheet : possibility to show the repeating section number

[Suggestion] Character sheet : possibility to show the repeating section number

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Natha

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It would be nice to have a possibilty to show the number (0, 1, 2 ...) of repeating section on the character sheet.

1406234604

Phnord Prephect

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+1 With only one or two entries, it's easy to count them up (then subtract one, since they start at zero (who does that?!)) When you've got a dozen entries, things get confusing! -Phnord PS: Not the only issue with repeating sections, but one that I'd still like to see fixed!

1406237430

Lithl

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Phnord Prephect said: since they start at zero (who does that?!) Programmers. Except the weird ones (ALGOL 68, CFML, COBOL, Fortran, FoxPro, Julia, Lua, Mathematica, MATLAB, PL/I, RPG, Smalltalk, Xpath). And the really weird ones (Haskell, Ada, Pascal, APL).

1406243760

The Aaron

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Programmers start at 0 because it makes the math easier. =D Array notation (originally) is just syntactic sugar for: ArrayAddr[index] == *(ArrayAddr+(index*sizeof(ArrayObject))) So, the index is really an offset into the array. The element at the beginning has an offset of 0. (This is also how overflow bugs generally work!)

1406245133

Lithl

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Aaron, Fortran is one of the oldest (1957) high-level programming languages (ie, higher-level than assembly, which doesn't have arrays), and it uses 1-indexed arrays. =)

1406246242

The Aaron

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Sure, I'm not saying it's the only way, just that's the why see 0 based indexing. Besides, I guarantee you they have a -1 in there somewhere. :)