Re: Academic name for associative array when used to pair column names with data

> But for one detail perhaps : the {a, 2x1} things cannot be denoted as sets,
> their components must be ordered (otherwise you don't know which is the name
> and which is the value).

What you're saying makes sense - I guess it should it be rewritten as below?

{ ( a, 2x1 ), ( b, 2x2 ), ( c, 2x3 ), ( d, 2x4 ), ( e, 2x5 ) }

(or angle brackets rather than parentheses) Received on Wed Mar 19 2014 - 14:08:18 CET