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:: Also, does it really matter for the task that you can access the element through that index? After all, the indexing itself isn't demonstrated. I guess the question comes down to what the task is actually intended to demonstrate. --[[User:Ce|Ce]] 16:47, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

:::You may be right. The collection type is obviously not the focus of this task, so it shouldn't be restricted if collections other than arrays fit the bill. It shouldn't be restricted to "haystack[i]" because first, some languages don't use that syntax and second, some collections which do support indexing do it through functions and methods (like nth from List or ArrayList.get() from Java). It should work for collections where if I run this function and get an index, then add an element to the "end" of the collection (that is, add an element to an end of the collection so that its index is greater than the index I got when I ran the function), then run the function again with the same arguments, I should get the same number. If that sounds like an OK specification, then which collections match it? --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 16:59, 26 November 2008 (UTC)