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learning about types in javascript is going great
Screenshot of a Node.js console session. me: define an array called arr, [1,2,3] node: ok. [ 1, 2, 3 ] me: what's the type of arr node: 'object' me (thinking): whut me: define an object called foo. foo = {"one": "I", "two": "II"} node: ok. { one: 'I', two: 'II' } me: what's the type of foo. node: 'object' me: what's the length of arr node: 3 me: show me arr as a string node: '1,2,3' me: assign 'barney' to the "fred"th place in arr node: ok. 'barney' me: uhhhh. what's in arr now node: [ 1, 2, 3, fred: 'barney' ] me: and what's the length of arr now? node: 3 me: and what's arr look like as a string now? node: '1,2,3' me: ok what's really in arr node: [ [ '0', 1 ], [ '1', 2 ], [ '2', 3 ], [ 'fred', 'barney' ] ]
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@hub "we designed javascript not so that using it would be easy, but so that designing it would be easy" 😂
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