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:: Just dont forget that a ''vector'' has a fixed length, ''per definition'' (as an element in an N-dimensional space), while strings often has (chronologically) variable length. [[Special:Contributions/83.255.35.89|83.255.35.89]] ([[User talk:83.255.35.89|talk]]) 11:23, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
:::But (unfortunately?) the word "vector" in computer science is most often used to refer to a variable-sized storage (see [[std::vector]]), while the word "array" is used to refer to the fixed-sized objects you are talking about. (In linear algebra libraries the word "vector" is used for fixed-sized objects, but these also demonstrate unusual (for programming) properties such as addition doing a component-wise action rather than an append operation).[[User:Spitzak|Spitzak]] ([[User talk:Spitzak|talk]]) 17:09, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
:I agree, but you probably ought not to take it too far. "Character string" is usually implied, and the article shouldn't give the impression that "string" on its own is incorrect. For the most part, I think your edits were fine, although perhaps you could revert the edits to the string oriented languages section. More effort doesn't need to go into the issue, as that would just confuse the article. --[[User:StuartBrady|StuartBrady]] 22:59, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
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