AFAIK, the use of range(stop) is quite common in python. When i came to Julia, it bothered me that the one argument range was not possible. I thought it was unnecessary to define the start argument. Even though one can get used to this, I welcome this change since it makes it easier for new Julia users (that migrate from python) . Of course there are other techniques to index an array or offset array, but range is still regularly used for these purposes.
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