On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Rick Waldron <[email protected]>wrote:

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> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Axel Rauschmayer <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> I would still love to have something like that in ES6 (loosely similar to
>> String.prototype.repeat). Once you have that, you can e.g. use
>> Array.prototype.map to do more things.
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>> Two possibilities:
>> - Array.repeat(undefined, 3) -> [ undefined, undefined, undefined ]
>> - [ undefined ].repeat(3) -> [ undefined, undefined, undefined ]
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>> The same array could be created like this, but that seems too much work
>> for a relatively common operation.
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>> 'x'.repeat(3).split('').map(=> undefined)
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> Array Comprehensions!
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> This is probably wrong, so treat it more like an idea and less like a
> matter of fact:
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> [ undefined for x of new Array(3) ].map( v => ... );
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> [ undefined for x of [0,0,0] ].map( v => ... );
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This should work, too (at least it works in Firefox, if you use a normal
function):

var powersOfTwo = [ ...Array(8) ].map( (v, i) => 1 << i )

Cheers,
Jussi


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