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Words about Arrays and Tables
THEY'RE JUST FUNCTIONS
July 30, 2025 I'm way too discombobulated from getting next month's release of Logic for Programmers ready, so I'm pulling a idea from the slush pile. Arrays appear in PLs earlier than the other two, possibly because they have the simplest implementation and the most obvious application to scientific computing. An implementation constraint is that most programming languages only allow integer indexes, so we have to replace Rooms and Colors with numerical enumerations over the set.
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