Why not name Random access range Index access range?

[Charles Hixson]

On 02/23/2013 06:11 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> 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

Well, to be fair it's not only been called random access.  Some 
languages preferred to call it direct access.  Same idea, though.  It's 
Random Access Disk in the same sense that RAM is Random Access Memory.