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...ing blocks abound unless we accept each language as a world of its own in which different design and implementation choices were made. If you take a language like Python and ask how to support 1-based objects, you might well come up with a rather different solution including using hooks such as the dunder variables they made easily accessible, making a subclass, using a decorator and so on. Having said that, consider that there are many successful examples in R where packages have augmented doing things in ways different than base R and different does not have to be better or worse but can have a...

Hello Peter, Unless I too misunderstand your point, negative indices for removal do work with the Oarray package (though -0 doesn't work to remove the 0th element, since -0 == 0 -- perhaps what you meant): > library(Oarray) > v <- Oarray(1:10, offset=0) > v [0,] [1,] [2,] [3,] [4,] [5,] [6,] [7,] [8,] [9,] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > dim(v)