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Currently we can imitate Arrays only with objects, where we would
refer to a value at some position via referring to objects property (
with integer index being converted to a string )
```js
var arr = {
"0" : "zero",
"1" : "one"
};
arr[ 1 ];
```
But we wouldn't get all those features that original Array has (like
length autoincremention, splice, split etc.)
So, the suggestion is to have WKS for getting and setting item in
array by index.
```js
get [ Symbol.Array.item ] ( index ){ /*returning code here*/ }
set [ Symbol.Array.item ] ( index ){ /*setter code here*/ }
```
-or-
```js
[ Symbol.Array.get ] ( index ){ /*returning code here*/ }
[ Symbol.Array.set ] ( index ){ /*setter code here*/ }
```
## Possible usecases
### readonly array
will throw if user tries to set item directly via index
```js
class ROArray extends Array {
constructor( initialValues ){
// init the array values here
}
[ Symbol.Array.set ] ( index ){
throw 'can`t set';
}
[ Symbol.Array.get ] ( index ){
return this[ index ];
}
}
```
### template-like behavior
items getter will wrap the value into a tag
```js
class LITemplateArray extends Array {
set tag ( tag ){
this._tag = tag;
}
[ Symbol.Array.get ] ( index ){
var tag = this._tag || 'li',
value = this[ index ];
return `<${ tag }>${value}</${tag}>`;
}
}
```
/*this is my first thread here, so I'm sorry if being wrong somewhere*/
/*after googling around, I haven't found such suggestion. though could
easily miss that*/
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