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		wvenable 81 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Are arrays functions? An array isn't a function -- indexing an array could be a function. But an array is a data structure. An array doesn't satisfy the requirements to be a function -- people are just confusing an array with array indexing.

adastra22 81 days ago [–]

In the mathematical sense a function is something that maps inputs to outputs. That’s also what an array is.

But this whole thing is uninteresting because it is ultimately just a disagreement about definitions.

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