I saw a funny presentation where Doug Bates said something like: "This kind of evaluation opens the door to do many strange and unspeakable things in R... for some reason Hadley Wickham is very excited about this."
In Dyalog APL you can set the index origin with βIOβ0 (or 1) and there are many ways in which this can bite you. In Lua, and I think Fortran, you can specify the range of array indices manually.
