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.
