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Re: permuting a JS vector

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: permuting a JS vector
Date 2015-05-31 22:42 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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dr.mtarver@gmail.com writes:

> On Sunday, May 31, 2015 at 8:27:22 PM UTC+1, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
<snip>
>>[...]  The push function returns the new array length,
>> not an array.  This last one is why you get the error.
>> 
> ah - a side-effect function then - that mutates an array but returns
> number?

Yes.  You'll need a reference if you are learning JavaScript as you
can't really guess.  For example:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/push

-- 
Ben.

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permuting a JS vector dr.mtarver@gmail.com - 2015-05-31 11:45 -0700
  Re: permuting a JS vector Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-31 20:27 +0100
    Re: permuting a JS vector dr.mtarver@gmail.com - 2015-05-31 13:09 -0700
      Re: permuting a JS vector Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-31 22:42 +0100
  Re: permuting a JS vector wolfgang zeidler <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-06-01 20:33 +0200
  Re: permuting a JS vector Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2015-06-05 13:12 -0700

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