What is the use case for .repeat? Trying to imagine some code where I'd need it so I can get a feel for how it should work.
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Mariusz Nowak < medikoo+mozilla....@medikoo.com> wrote: > > > Rick Waldron wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Mariusz Nowak < > > medikoo+mozilla....@medikoo.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> Rick Waldron wrote: > >> > > >> > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Mariusz Nowak < > >> > medikoo+mozilla....@medikoo.com> wrote: > >> > > >> >> > >> >> I like it, it indeed looks very logical, however it's a bit > >> controversial > >> >> that we need to create temporary array object to get one that we > want. > >> >> > >> > > >> > Is the controversy editorial or fact, because the following methods > are > >> > all > >> > specified to use a temporary, newly initialized Array internally: > >> > > >> > Array.prototype.concat > >> > Array.prototype.filter (...) > >> > > >> > >> Rick, you say that apart of output arrays this methods create some other > >> temporary arrays internally ? > >> I don't see anything like that in specification, where exactly is it > >> stated > >> ? > >> > > > > > > Array.prototype.concat > > - http://es5.github.com/#x15.4.4.4 #2 > > > > Array.prototype.filter > > - http://es5.github.com/#x15.4.4.20 #6 > > > > (...) > > > > Rick, those arrays become result of each method, they're not temporary. > > > ----- > Mariusz Nowak > > https://github.com/medikoo > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Suggestion%3A-Array.prototype.repeat-tp33067649p33072157.html > Sent from the Mozilla - ECMAScript 4 discussion mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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