Arrays vs Lists

[miscdas at boxfrog.com]

Mike McManus writes: 

[snip]
> As for Dar's question about a list. IME, a list is an ordered delimited 
> groups of words or phrases. The delimiter is usually, but not always a 
> comma. I suspect that is not correct when you consider programming in 
> general. But having spent a lot of time in Hypercard. That is what I 
> consider one.  You can delimit with anything, just be sure it doesn't pop 
> up in you list items. 
> 

Why restrict your definition to an ORDERED group of "things"? Granted that 
intuitively, ordering renders the list more useful. But should it be a 
requirement? 

miscdas