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In most programming languages, arrays are accessed by using the array brackets <tt>[</tt> and <tt>]</tt>, e.g. in <tt>A[i]</tt>. However, exceptions exist, including [[REXX]] which instead uses the dot operator <tt>.</tt>, such as in <tt>A.i</tt>; [[Fortran]], [[Ada]] and [[BASIC]] which use round parentheses <tt>A(i)</tt>, and in [[LISP|lisp]] dialects which use constructions like <tt>(ELT A n)</tt> for accessing and <tt>(SETA A n new_val)</tt> for setting (Interlisp) or <tt>(vector-ref A n)</tt> for accessing and <tt>(vector-set! A n new_val)</tt> for setting (Scheme). No bracket indexing occurs in [[J]], an array language; instead, the normal syntax of function creation and function calling applies.

 

==Computational metrics==