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:: For example index is certainly not integer, when arrays are indexed by an enumeration type or are multi-dimensional. I suppose that what most of people associate with an array of this kind is in fact an ordered container indexed as [[O]](1), rather than a data structure of certain type. (:-)) --[[User:Dmitry-kazakov|Dmitry-kazakov]] 10:30, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
::: "Array" seems to be one of those words meaning all and nothing in the same time. The fact that we need an extra adjective to specify it better (multidimensional, associative) seems to confirm it. As concept it has a broad sense. As "thing", it seems it depends a lot on the language: PHP and AWK e.g. call array what it's clearer to call hash table or associative array; C has only arrays indexable by an integer (or two, or three etc. ints for multidimensional arrays), and so it is for e.g. Fortran, Pascal (as far as I can remember) and more langs. As suggested, maybe this page should become an "umbrella" for more specific kind of data structures that can be grouped as "(adjective) arrays". (Maybe ''array'' is used as synonym for ''collection''?) --[[User:ShinTakezou|ShinTakezou]] 12:53, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
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