How to pronounce“subscript”in English
verbBut now you get into a type language and, you know, in Python, if you subscript with an integer, then you get typically one element out of a collection.
If you subscript with a range, you get a different thing out, right?
And so often in type languages, you'll wanna be able to express the fact that, cool, I have different behavior, depending on what I actually pass into this thing.
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Definitions of “subscript”
A type of lettering form written lower than the things around it.
“In chemical formulas the number of atoms in a molecule is written as a subscript, so we write H₂O for water which has two atoms of hydrogen for each one of oxygen.”
An index into an array or hash.
“If the container is subscriptable and you remember the position where a particular piece of data was stored, you can use the subscript to efficiently retrieve the data.”
To provide with a subscript.
“As in the chapters on the synchronous model, we use the convention of subscripting a variable by the index of the process at which the variable resides.”
To convert to a subscript form.
“If your presentation covers chemistry or some other scientific field, you'll need to subscript and superscript characters (think H2O).”
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