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hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:

>crowl@jade.CS.ORST.EDU (Lawrence Crowl) writes:

>>CS substripting (usually) identifies a variable among a homogeneous
>>set.  It has nothing to do with memory allocation (semantically, though
>>often in practice).  It is like the math subscripts used to access
>>vector elements.
>
>To a mathematician, the unit need not be homogeneous at all.  Also, I am
>not aware of a computer language with a subscript notation which is not 
>tied to memory allocation; in general, even a variable means some sort of
>allocation.

In any language that supports operator overloading, for example C++,
the subscript notation is not tied to memory allocation.

Also some languages like awk and perl have associative arrays as built-in
data types:
	count["hello world"] = 0

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