Indexers are a little confusing. I'm not sure I know what their uses are?

Answer 1

indexers allows instance of a class to be indexed like an array
in the example they have declared names[] private(encapsulation principle)of ten elements, since we need to access to each element to modify it (set or get) you need to define an indexer
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Answer 2

indexers are useful mostly in collection classes