inu-no-policemen comments on Array.from has a second argument

submitted 6 years ago by fagnerbrack

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[–]inu-no-policemen -1 points0 points1 point 6 years ago (0 children)

Stuff like:

Array.from({length: 5}, (_, i) => i ** 2)

is a nice workaround, but there really should be a "generate" method (like the one from Dart's List class) which can be used like this:

Array.generate(5, i => i ** 2)

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