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:::[[wp:Array]] and [[wp:associative array]] are both well defined and ''distinct'' terms. Wikipedia has it right. A lowest-common-denominator, generic "array" is presumed to be a contiguous chunk of same-sized objects, accessed via base, index, and stride, as is supported all the way down to the instruction set in most processors. Such arrays have special syntax in most early, low-level languages. Arrays are the building-block of higher-level collections. "Associative arrays" are a class of collections which obey an array-like protocol and which could have a variety of implementations, each with different benefits. Their only similarities are name, protocol, and sometimes shared language syntax. In my opinion, they should be kept very distinct on Rosetta Code, following the example of Wikipedia. --[[User:IanOsgood|IanOsgood]] 13:15, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
:::: Fundamentally I agree. (Except in some wording, maybe often computer scientists fail using human language? Array can't be too much distinct from "associative array", or we should call "array" ''abraca'' and "associative array" ''salakur''; otherwise the idea is that an associative array is just an array, one of the possible kind of; forget it if you did not mean that an "associative array" is not an "array") --[[User:ShinTakezou|ShinTakezou]] 15:09, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
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