• SolNine@lemmy.ml
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    25 days ago

    List and Array terminology also bothers me … Why not just call it an array?

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      23 days ago

      But python lists are not like the base arrays in other languages. They function more like List<> or vector (C++ had to be special) and are named appropriately.