[DavidVoid]

And a lot of the time it makes the syntax more compact than it would be with 0-indexing.

  for i=1,#arr do
    foo(arr[i])
  end

I don't feel that strongly for or against either way of indexing though, they both have their pros and cons.

[kqr]

Perl is usually used with the first element being zero and the same loop would be

    for (0..$#arr) {
        foo(arr[$_])
    }

Whatever you're feeling is not in starting at one.