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It sometimes mares sense to be able to index an object as if it were an array. This can be done by writing an indexer for the object, which can be thought of as a smart array. As a property looks like a field but has accessors to perform get and set operations, an indexer looks like an array, but has accessors to perform array indexing operations.

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Gunnerson, E. (2001). Indexers and Enumerators. In: A Programmer’s Introduction to C#. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0909-6_19

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