Why are contract creators not allowed to have a nonce of 0?

Hi There,

What is wrong?

I'm trying to create a contract with an account that has a nonce of 0 and it's failing due to the address generation. I can see here that the 1 is subtracted from the sender nonce:

py-evm/eth/vm/forks/frontier/state.py

Line 68 in 44e0ee4

self.vm_state.get_nonce(transaction.sender) - 1,

.

How can it be fixed

Is this intentional? If so, are there ways around it?

Nevermind, just realised there is an increment nonce operation before that on line 60.