Baffled By Arrays

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Russell

Ah! Ok, NOOOOOOW it makes sense. I guess ;) Seriously, though, it does. But, what advantage does an array of arrays have over a two dimensional array? They seem to work in a similar way. That is, in this:

Global Arr:Int[2,2]

We have two elements per index. That is, we have:

Arr[0,0] = 1  ; index one's first element
Arr[0,1] = 2  ; index one's second element
Arr[1,0] = 3  ; index two's first element
Arr[1,1] = 4  ; index two's second element

Seems to work the same as:

Arr[0][0] = 1
Arr[0][1] = 2
Arr[1][0] = 3
Arr[1][1] = 4

In this instance, are they the same? I guess the difference is that the 'secondary' array COULD be multidimensional if necessary. Am I close?

Thanks,
Russell