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What to call Swift fixed-size arrays—the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

@fay59 I swear sometimes I think that I could get absolutely any nonsense API through evolution just by giving it a ridiculous enough name. Everyone will just focus on that one thing. =)

Paul Cantrell

@steve @fay59 Several of us CS instructors were having a conversation just a day or two ago about how we need to create a little handout for our intro students that’s basically “list, array, vector, tuple: these terms show up everywhere and have no truly consistent meaning across languages”