Why not name Random access range Index access range?

[Mike Parker]

On Saturday, 23 February 2013 at 12:59:44 UTC, deed wrote:
> as there is no randomness involved, only the possibility to 
> access by index.

"random access" is exactly the name this sort of behavior has 
always had. It doesn't mean random as in /according to chance/, 
but random as in non-sequential.  See 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_access