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0-index. I tried to like Lua, but indexing from 1 is just too painful when you have to talk to C.

In times like that, I would just assume the array size is +1, and ignore the first C Zero position. It's a pain but just setup something once and its done.

No, it's not. See here: http://lua-users.org/wiki/CountingFromOne

I made a comment on that wiki MOONS ago, and it still holds.

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