for...in Iterates Over Object Properties
I don't reach for for loops very often, so when I needed one recently I thought I'd check out the newer for...in
construct. It didn't behave quite how I was expecting. I thought it would iterate over the values in the target list, instead it seemed to be iterating over the indices.
The MDN docs explain what is going on:
The
for...in
statement iterates over all non-Symbol, enumerable properties of an object.
An array is an object whose properties are the indices of the values stored in the array.
The iteration value wasn't what I was looking for, but in this case I can use it to access the value from the list. I'd be better off using a standard for loop though.
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