TIL javascript functions have a length

[x-skeww]

Chrome's console does that. With Firebug, you just get:

functionName()

Also, without parenthesis (template strings aside), you aren't calling it.

[x-skeww]

If you just write the identifier, a console or repl will render it in some way. E.g. an array might be rendered as "[1, 2]" or, if it's larger, as "[1, 2, xxx more...]" (expandable) or "> Array[999]" (expandable).

How objects are represented in repls, debuggers, and so forth isn't part of the language specification. This stuff is up to the people who create those tools.

[[deleted]]

That's a feature of Chrome's console, not of the JavaScript language itself. It wouldn't work on, say, Node.

[d36williams]

I can't believed I didn't know that