Am Do., 8. Okt. 2020 um 14:10 Uhr schrieb Adam Nelson <xxxxxx@nels.onl>:

> I like "buffer", although it's not a name that makes it immediately
> obvious that the type has a relationship to vectors/lists. Another
> possibility is to just accept overloading of existing terms, and to use
> "arraylist", which anyone familiar with Java will immediately recognize.

When "buffers" become established, it won't be more problematic than
the term vector (for which it is also not exactly clear what it means
unless you have already seen (Scheme) vectors).

The nice thing about "buffer" is that "charbuffer", "bytebuffer",
"u32buffer" are still reasonably simple, compared to, say,
"chararraylist".

> I'm not a fan of "field", it's too overloaded of a term and it usually
> refers to a binding or a text input GUI widget.

The German term for "array" is "Feld", which has the same roots as
"field"; that's why the notion came to my mind. But it is indeed an
overloaded term. We also have fields in the sense of algebra.

Marc