"Michael Lazzaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Along those lines, the closest I've been able to come so far to a > usable two-sentence definition is: > > -- A list is an ordered set of scalar values.
quibble: that's an "ordered bag", isn't it? ;) > -- An array is an object that stores a list. My phrasing of the distinction is that a list is a lexical entity, whilst an array is a variable. Anonymous array constructors are just special syntax for passing a list to an array (or Array) constructor.
