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From: Fraser Wilson <blancolioni@blancolioni.org>
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"Ayende Rahien" <Dont@spam.me> writes:

> An array is a container for data, a function is something that return data
> based on some code that is in it.

To me, that's an implementation detail.  In the circumstances where
arrays and functions are indistinguishable syntactically, they do
essentially the same thing -- map a value or values to another value.

Seguing into a topic from some other corner of the thread, I really
like the idea, in languages that allow you to define operators, of
assigning precedences only to related operators, and requiring
parentheses for the rest.  What an elegant solution.

User-defined new operators would be entirely inappropriate for Ada of
course.

Fraser.