-vgc Info ok?

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 19 May 2015 at 12:41:29 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> 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.

Is that so. I don't remember having come across this meaning. It 
is usually called "access" or "indexing access" (cf. 
http://dlang.org/hash-map.html). I still think that saying just 
"indexing" is not correct in -vgc, since it can be both 
assignment and access.

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