terminological obscurity

[Aahz]

In article <slrncastid.5mc.grante at grante.rivatek.com>,
Grant Edwards  <grante at visi.com> wrote:
>
>OK, I see what you mean.  That brings up the question of why
>use integer indexes to access members of of a group of objects
>when the order of the objects is meaningless?

Because it's lightweight compared to using string indexes (i.e. a dict).
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