For people with a C/Java-style background, array typically designates a contiguous piece of memory that has been allocated at once, is thus fixed-size, and can be accessed randomly (i.e. by index). Vectors are typically structures or objects at a higher level, that still present a random-access collection, but can also for example change size.
With that Background, Clojure's choice makes perfect sense. Please also consider that Clojure does not use vector instead of array, but in addition to; see make-array, geta, seta, et al. On Saturday, 3 October 2015, Mars0i <marsh...@logical.net> wrote: > I have no idea about the official reason, but outside of certain > programming languages that use "array" for one-dimensional data structures, > an array often has two (or more) dimensions. In R, for example, arrays can > have an arbitrary number of dimensions. Honestly, when I'm away from Java > for a while and then encounter the term "array" in Java, I have to stop and > remember that it's 1-D, or check some documentation, because "array" > doesn't automatically mean 1-D to me. > > On the other hand, I believe that vectors are always one-dimensional, as > in linear algebra. > > So maybe Rich Hickey just decided that "vector" was a better, less > ambiguous name. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clojure@googlegroups.com');> > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
