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::: "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)
:::: I agree that array should become a category with more than one articles in it. To me too, ''Collection'' feels quite close to ''array''. Though it is less oriented on implementation issues, and more on the interface. I believe it was introduced as an [[object-oriented|OO]]-ish substitute for more data/representation-oriented ''array''. --[[User:Dmitry-kazakov|Dmitry-kazakov]] 13:04, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
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