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Mats Karlssohn <mats@mida.se> writes:

> Yes, IMHO that's a correct way of viewing it. I do have some
> background in formal logic so I can se most relations as mapping
> functions. However, I can also see the view that an array is just
> data storage (thus ignoring the work needed to access the data).

I think it depends on how the array is being used.  For example, I think
of a String as a sequence of characters, not as a mapping from a subset
of the positive integers to characters.  Arrays (in Ada) are a fairly
low-level abstraction, and can be used to implement many different
higher-level concepts.

- Bob