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==array==

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==Array structure?==

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--[[User:Cluzz|Cluzz]] ([[User talk:Cluzz|talk]]) 15:33, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

== clarity ==

There needs to be some clarity as to what an array is, it seems sometimes it is a consecutive series of same sized elements in a datastructure (consecutive in memory) but then memory on most modern systems isn't physically consecutive anyway... since it is virtualised, so then... is it a logic (pretend) consecutive series of same sized elements? then we have associative arrays, which don't seem to be arrays at all but often lists of things. I know what I was taught originally an array to be, as in k&r C, but... that doesn't appear to be the definitive definition of array - at least any more. [[Special:Contributions/103.232.162.28|103.232.162.28]] ([[User talk:103.232.162.28|talk]]) 18:28, 1 June 2025 (UTC)