Arrays in Visual Basic

Question

In declaring an array in VB, would you ever leave the zero element empty and adjust the code to make it more user friendly?

This is for Visual Basic 2008

Answer 1

First, it is about programmer friendly, not user friendly. User will never know the code is 0-based or 1-based.

Second, 0-based is the default and will be used more and more.

Third, 0-based is more natural to computer. From the very element, it has two status, 0 and 1, not 1 and 2.

I have upgraded a couple of VB6 projects to vb.net. To modify to 0-based array in the beginning is better than to debug the code a later time.