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Giles Senior Member Offline Posts: 252	array Feb 3rd, 2010, 6:34pm   I notice the word "array" is  a recognised word in Processing (it lights up orange when you type it). What is it used for, does anyone know? Because you don't actually use the word when working with arrays, as far as I know....

Lexor Soft Ex Member	Re: array Reply #1 - Feb 3rd, 2010, 7:36pm   If I'm not mistaken, it should be proceeded by a number.

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: array Reply #2 - Feb 4th, 2010, 1:32am   Aha, found it! Look at lib/keywords.txt array      KEYWORD2      PVector_array_ array() is a method of PVector. You can see that cross() is highlighted as well, for example. Note that's only an highlight facility, these are not real keywords, nothing prevents you from using these names as identifiers.