This task is about arrays.

For hashes or associative arrays, please see Creating an Associative Array.

For a definition and in-depth discussion of what an array is, see Array.



Task

Show basic array syntax in your language.

Basically, create an array, assign a value to it, and retrieve an element   (if available, show both fixed-length arrays and
dynamic arrays, pushing a value into it).

Please discuss at Village Pump:   Arrays.

Please merge code in from these obsolete tasks:

   Creating an Array
   Assigning Values to an Array
   Retrieving an Element of an Array


Related tasks

   Collections
   Creating an Associative Array
   Two-dimensional array (runtime)


-- a is an array of INTs
a :ARRAY{INT};
-- create an array of five "void" elements
a := #ARRAY{INT}(5);
-- static creation of an array with three elements
b :ARRAY{FLT} := |1.2, 1.3, 1.4|;
-- accessing an array element
c ::= b[0]; -- syntactic sugar for b.aget(0)
-- set an array element
b[1] := c; -- syntactic sugar for b.aset(1, c)
-- append another array
b := b.append(|5.5|);