[sv-ec] Array terminology

From: Jonathan Bromley <jonathan.bromley_at_.....>
Date: Tue Nov 27 2007 - 06:02:44 PST
One of the current goals of Mantis proposals 1702 and 1447 
is to make all kinds of unpacked array other than associative
be assignment-compatible with one another wherever it's
reasonable (size OK, elements assignment-compatible).

The language in both those proposals is sometimes a
little tortured because we lack a simple umbrella term
for the three sorts of array: queue, dynamic, and 
fixed-size unpacked.  I don't know whether Mike Burns
and I would have time to make use of any such term
in the proposals, but does anyone have any strong
feelings about this?  Here are a few candidates I
thought of:

  sequential array
  contiguous unpacked array
  linear unpacked array
  non-associative unpacked array

???
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