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No it's not and even Stepanov, the person who gave it its name, has admitted it was a mistake: Link to lecture by Stepanov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etZ
by Kranar 4y ago
No it's not and even Stepanov, the person who gave it its name, has admitted it was a mistake:
Link to lecture by Stepanov:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etZgaSjzqlU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etZgaSjzqlU
Furthermore in his book "From Mathematics to Generic Programming", Stepanov says that if he could change its name, he'd have named it "array".
- Koshkin 4y agoIndeed, "vector" appears to be relatively recent terminology, it has been "array" since the dawn of programming. But it's too late now, and we already have the std::array anyway...