Arrays in Programming Languages
The cluster focuses on debates about what constitutes an array versus lists or other structures, array syntax like slicing and indexing, and features or lacks thereof in languages such as PHP, JavaScript, and others.
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It's not an array trick, it's a definition of arrays.
This isn't your father's Array. Sigh.
That's not "just an array".
True for arrays. Very wrong for singly-linked lists, as in lisp, haskell, erlang, etc.
WTF? Array functions as something GOOD about PHP? It doesn't have a slicing syntax for crying out loud!
Still no arrays in the standard? GTFO.
and yet still doesn't use array dereferencing
They are array languages. If you have never heart of array languages check out the code_report youtube channel.
Sure, once it's in the language spec and doesn't use Array hacks.
Was there a reason that array style braces ([]) weren't used?