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)


;; Create an array and store it in array-example
(assign array-example
        (compress1 'array-example
                   (list '(:header :dimensions (10)
                                   :maximum-length 11))))
 
;; Set a[5] to 22
(assign array-example
        (aset1 'array-example
               (@ array-example)
               5
               22))
 
;; Get a[5]
(aref1 'array-example (@ array-example) 5)