@cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml • 1 year agoThe code was very janky, but it workedi.imgflip.comimagemessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-square@PoolloverNathan@programming.devlinkfedilink0•1 year agoArray(3) doesn’t create [undefined, undefined, undefined, ]; it creates [/* hole */, /* hole */, /* hole */, ]. The holes don’t set any property on the array whatsoever, so they are skipped when iterating. How this makes sense, I can’t tell you.
minus-square@mindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink0•1 year agoYet the array contains exactly three nothings. It’s like a zen koan.
Array(3)doesn’t create[undefined, undefined, undefined, ]; it creates[/* hole */, /* hole */, /* hole */, ]. The holes don’t set any property on the array whatsoever, so they are skipped when iterating. How this makes sense, I can’t tell you.Yet the array contains exactly three nothings.
It’s like a zen koan.
Time is a flat circle