The use of 1 or 0 for indexing

[peerreynders]

Shouldn't we have a List.nth in Elixir?

Erlang :list.nth simple, but 1 - based nth(1, [H|_]) -> H; nth(N, [_|T]) when N > 1 -> nth(N - 1, T). Elixir Enum.at … cool, but not focused on Lists def at(enumerable, index, default \\ nil) do case fetch(enumerable, index) do {:ok, h} -> h :error -> default end end ... # other code to check if _is a list_ or not, before redirtecting to do_fetch... Elixir could (should?) have List.nth, a 0-based equivalent of Erlang’s :list.nth that expects to work only on l…

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@OvermindDL1

As a bit of terminology, an index of a collection starts at 1, an offset into a collection starts at 0. Most languages use offset (regardless of what word they use).