• deed (2/2) Feb 23 2013 as there is no randomness involved, only the possibility to
• Mike Parker (5/7) Feb 23 2013 "random access" is exactly the name this sort of behavior has
• Charles Hixson (4/10) Feb 23 2013 Well, to be fair it's not only been called random access. Some

"deed" <none none.none> writes:

as there is no randomness involved, only the possibility to 
access by index.

"Mike Parker" <aldacron gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 23 February 2013 at 12:59:44 UTC, deed wrote:
 as there is no randomness involved, only the possibility to 
 access by index.

"random access" is exactly the name this sort of behavior has 
always had. It doesn't mean random as in /according to chance/, 
but random as in non-sequential.  See 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_access

Charles Hixson <charleshixsn earthlink.net> writes:

On 02/23/2013 06:11 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
 On Saturday, 23 February 2013 at 12:59:44 UTC, deed wrote:
 as there is no randomness involved, only the possibility to access by
 index.

 "random access" is exactly the name this sort of behavior has always
 had. It doesn't mean random as in /according to chance/, but random as
 in non-sequential. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_access

Well, to be fair it's not only been called random access.  Some 
languages preferred to call it direct access.  Same idea, though.  It's 
Random Access Disk in the same sense that RAM is Random Access Memory.