>> No, I said the term *data structure* implies aspects of implementation.
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So, when I use the term "array", you automatically forced into a row-
major physical implementation, instead of a column-major
implementation or or a linked list or a hash table or something else?
I seem to recall that PL/I and FORTRAN standards required different
row/column implementations, but we had arrays (matrix math) before we
had computers.
All I hear with *data structure* is an access method that can have
pretty much any data type at the node or cell level. I cannot see why
an access method could be a data type. The box is not the birthday
present :)
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