If you’re familiar with nearly any mainstream programming language, and I asked you to draw a diagram of an array, the array indices, and the array elements, odds are good you’d produce a diagram something like this: In this post, I want to persuade you to replace that image, or, at least, to augment it with an alternate view on the world. I want to argue that, rather than numbering elements of an array, it makes just as much sense, and in many cases more, to number the spaces between elements: