May 15, 2003

obi-wan error

/oh´bee·won` er'@r/ n.

[RPI, from off-by-one and the Obi-Wan Kenobi character in Star Wars] A loop of some sort in which the index is off by

1. Common when the index should have started from 0 but instead started from

2. A kind of off-by-one error. See also zeroth.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:36 AM

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