I've read about Lua, it's almost perfect language, but there was critical error. It's one-based indexing. I read also it has a feature to setting value at index 0, but it's not counted table length and string manipulations are still one-based. So the feature is meaningless.
I don't want to flame about one-based or zero based. I'm just asking is there a feature forcing to use zero-based indexing.
Even if there was a #define TABLE_START_INDEX 1 in the Lua sources (which I don't believe there is) you would pretty much shoot yourself in the leg by changing this. This is due to most libraries using 1-based indexing. Thus any code doing something like the following would break.
for i = 1, #t do ... end
You can of course use iterators or even create helper functions to avoid this.
function get_first(t) return t[1] end
Probably though the actual problem you are trying to solve is harder than changing from 0 to 1-based indexing.
I think that that Lua already has the feature that you need to make it 0-based. Unfortunately the feature that I refer to is Lua's open source license.
I was unable to find a patch or fork of Lua that changed the 1-based nature of the language.
Unfortunately forking Lua to change it to 0-based would also break backwards compatibility. Loss of all the current add-on modules may be to great a price to pay for ease of use.