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Subject: Re: Arrays vs. Lists
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 15:57:41 -0800
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"Michael Lazzaro" <mlazz...@cognitivity.com> wrote in message
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> Along those lines, the closest I've been able to come so far to a
> usable two-sentence definition is:
>
> -- A list is an ordered set of scalar values.

quibble: that's an "ordered bag", isn't it?  ;)

> -- An array is an object that stores a list.

My phrasing of the distinction is that a list is a lexical entity,
whilst an array is a variable.

Anonymous array constructors are just special syntax for
passing a list to an array (or Array) constructor.