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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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> In article <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104091353580.6359-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
Brian
> Rogoff says...
> >
> >> Why do you *need* to pick out arrays?
> >
> >Because I am a programmer. Reading code is just one of those things that
I
> >do from time to time. Given that arrays and functions are different,
> >programmers who read other people's code need to know what's what when
> >reading.
>
> I had guessed that you are a programmer. I was hoping for a reason that's
a
> little more specific. I still don't see why someone trying to track down
an
> unrelated problem in some source code always needs to know that a
particular
> value came out of an array instead of a function.

What about just *understanding* a code?
For large works, you need to read a lot of code, and knowing that X is an
array can save you trying to understand what is going on here.
However, if we are talking about it. Implementing it in [1,2,3] no [1][2][3]
is clearer, IMO.

An array is a container for data, a function is something that return data
based on some code that is in it.
Implementing arrays & functions in a way which the reader can't visually
detect which one is which is wrong.