-vgc Info ok?

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On Tue, 19 May 2015 11:36:32 +0000, Chris wrote:

> On Tuesday, 19 May 2015 at 11:08:52 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
>> On Monday, 18 May 2015 at 14:30:43 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>
>>> Why is _accessing_ an assoc treated as indexing it?
>>
>> Are you sure you understand "indexing" as we do? It's not like indexing
>> of databases, it's just "accessing by index" i.e. using
>> myarray[some_index].
> 
> I understood indexing as assigning an index to something
> 
> myarray["Index1"] = "First Entry";
> 
> As in
> 
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/indexing
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/index#Verb

and that's wrong. ;-) most programmers in this case read "indexing" as 
"accesing by index". it's a common term for such access.

tbh, i didn't even understand you fully until i read the post i'm 
answering to.
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