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On 10 Feb 2006, at 12:45, Nick Coghlan wrote:
An alternative would be to call it "\_\_discrete\_\_", as that is the key�
characteristic of an indexing type - it consists of a sequence of discrete�
values that can be isomorphically mapped to the integers.
Another alternative: \_\_as\_ordinal\_\_.� Wikipedia describes ordinals as "numbers used to denote the position in an ordered sequence" which seems a pretty precise description of the intended result.� The "as\_" prefix also captures the idea that this should be a lossless conversion.
Mark Russell