Subject: RE: bug#16106: 24.3.50; doc of `replace-match'

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 22:56:25 -0800 (PST)

> Most things in Emacs and Lisp in general are zero-based.
> It is not obvious that this is one-based.  And Oth and zeroth
> make as much sense as 1th and oneth.  If counting is zero-based
> then the 0th element is exactly that: the entry that is indexed
> by the number zero.

Let me put it differently: Is there a good reason NOT to say that
"N is a digit from 1 through 9"?