Re: Documentation / usage --- Array vs. Vector

2013-07-15 Thread vrakade
Very helpful, thanks for the explanation Mikera! On Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:45:35 AM UTC-5, Mikera wrote: > > This is a heavily overloaded naming space - especially when you consider > code.matrix as well, and usage of these words in mathematical / scientific > communities. > > Data scientis

Re: Documentation / usage --- Array vs. Vector

2013-07-11 Thread Mikera
This is a heavily overloaded naming space - especially when you consider code.matrix as well, and usage of these words in mathematical / scientific communities. Data scientists generally expect a "vector" to be a 1D collection of numeric values, in the same sense that a "matrix" is a 2D collec

Documentation / usage --- Array vs. Vector

2013-07-10 Thread vrakade
I see that Lists and Vectors are similar, but have different uses and for logical reasons. My question may be more about language of datatypes in Clojure than usage. Is it appropriate to use the term Array and Vector interchangeably when writing documentation about Clojure/EDN for non-Clojure p