###Its called Table in most systems:

OO systems that provide the concept of an Interface support swapping out implementations transparently. Java specifically does this Collection <- List <- ArrayList, LinkedList, etc.

C++ supports this as well. Python supports this. C would not support this directly.

Dependency Injection in the languages that support this would making plugging concrete implementations in and out configurable as well.

• Java: For a extremely generalized interface Guava has the Table interface and enough specific implementations to cover almost all cases.

• Lua really on has one collection type and that is Table.

A Table interface can serve all the general purposes of an Associative Array as well as a random access normal Array if you just use numbers for the keys.

Its called Table in most systems:

OO systems that provide the concept of an Interface support swapping out implementations transparently. Java specifically does this Collection <- List <- ArrayList, LinkedList, etc.

C++ supports this as well. Python supports this. C would not support this directly.

Dependency Injection in the languages that support this would making plugging concrete implementations in and out configurable as well.

• Java: For a extremely generalized interface Guava has the Table interface and enough specific implementations to cover almost all cases.

• Lua really on has one collection type and that is Table.

A Table interface can serve all the general purposes of an Associative Array as well as a random access normal Array if you just use numbers for the keys.

OO systems that provide the concept of an Interface support swapping out implementations transparently. Java specifically does this Collection <- List <- ArrayList, LinkedList, etc.

C++ supports this as well. Python supports this. C would not support this directly.

Dependency Injection in the languages that support this would making plugging concrete implementations in and out configurable as well.

###Its called Table in most systems:

OO systems that provide the concept of an Interface support swapping out implementations transparently. Java specifically does this Collection <- List <- ArrayList, LinkedList, etc.

C++ supports this as well. Python supports this. C would not support this directly.

Dependency Injection in the languages that support this would making plugging concrete implementations in and out configurable as well.

• Java: For a extremely generalized interface Guava has the Table interface and enough specific implementations to cover almost all cases.

• Lua really on has one collection type and that is Table.

A Table interface can serve all the general purposes of an Associative Array as well as a random access normal Array if you just use numbers for the keys.