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hazel (h@social.besties.house)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 14:08:41 JST hazel

discovered a new horror today
In conversation about 4 months ago from social.besties.house permalink
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1. tweet by @joyofcodedev: I always thought 'length' was read-only 🙈 attached image demonstrates that by changing an arrays .length property in JavaScript the array is truncated. quote tweet by @mycoliza: so, on one hand, this is horrifying, but on the other hand, it actually does do what you would expect, which is pretty unusual for javascript
  https://pool.jortage.com/socialbestieshouse/media_attachments/files/112/900/761/038/811/187/original/12a4704429e79208.jpeg
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  hazel (h@social.besties.house)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 14:08:51 JST hazel
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  to answer questions about increasing the length & using negative values:
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  1. screenshot from NodeJS’s REPL. Increasing the array length adds empty items to the array (not undefined or null, and not an empty string, but an empty item, which you may know also occurs with [,,,,,]) and setting a negative value throws an error.
    https://pool.jortage.com/socialbestieshouse/media_attachments/files/112/900/778/860/631/488/original/2b0ab7a61ee1e326.jpeg
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