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Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler wrote:
> What's wrong with that? Arrays are just (constant) functions. ;-)
> There's no difference between a function that actually calculates
> something and its precomputed equivalent called array or - to be more
> precise - lookup-table.

Except that arrays are not constant. What is the advantage of concealing
from the reader of the code that an array reference is occurring? This is
just another one of those places where dumb theory was used in the place
of practical language design.