Accessing replicants in formAPI and in a TPL

Hey,

I am writing a presentation template, and came across what seems to be some inconsistency to me, and wanted to make sure that nothing is wrong with my code.
Consider a situation where you have a container called X with replicants defined for it (min = 1, max = 20).
When I access the first replicant of X in formAPI I do so by writing X[1].
When I access the first replicant of X in a TPL I do so by writing X[0].

It seems like the index for the first replicant changes between the TPL and formAPI.
Is this really the case?

Thanks,
Ido

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Adam Stoller

I believe that is correct - javascript uses 1-based arrays and PTs use 0-based arrays

Migrateduser

Yes, but it's not such a strange thing. Perl and Javascript are two different languages and although it would be nice if there were some universal standard with programming languages when marshalling arrays but there is not, although most tend to adhere to an array originating with element zero.

jbonifaci

Actually, javascript uses 0 based arrays as well. What he's refering to his the item xpath. I'm not sure if there is some standard around this that it should be 1 based? If not, I think the iwov guys were on crack when they made the replicant intances 1 based.

ravio

Or maybe they were on a lot of caffine and highly alert so as not to call a replicant instance as '0'th instance.

Probably from the end users perspective, calling a first replicant as first and not '0'th makes more sense

;-)

Migrateduser

Agreed but it still deviates from common practice of the first element being number "0".