Re: Setting up object arrays - loops not loopng enough times

From:
 Daniel Pitts <googlegroupie@coloraura.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:23:11 -0000
Message-ID:
<1192929791.089307.303520@y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 20, 5:54 pm, t...@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov wrote:

On Oct 20, 8:43 pm, "Adam Maass" <adam.nospam.ma...@comcast.net>
wrote:> "MattandPaul...@talktalk.net" <mattymu...@aol.com> wrote :

...
 are elements in the array.

What you probably meant was:

for(int x = 0; x < queue.length; x++){
    queue[x] = '~';

}


It caused me great confusion in learning JavaScript that what
seems to be the equivalent syntax to Java's for (x: array) {...}

  var arr = new Array(10);

  for (var i in arr) {
      ...
  }

would work as the OP had apparently anticipated, i.e., i would take
the values from 0 to 9 in the loop. Since JavaScript arrays
are really more like hash maps between numbers and values
it makes sense there, but it wasn't what I expected. Perl loops
over are similar to Java with

   for my $x(@array) {...}

setting $x to each of the elements of the array.

Are there other languages that do it the way it's implemented
in JavaScript? Perhaps the OP was coming to Java with such a
background.

    Regards,
    Tom McGlynn


Actually, in JavaScript, it would ALSO set the values of any key on
that array object, that wasn't an index.

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