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Harry
Harry

Reputation: 54939

javascript what happens on array push?

so I have:

var something = function () { return 6}

var foo = new something();

var arr = []
var arr2 = []

I do arr2.push(foo) and arr.push(foo)

What happens in the background? Is foo duplicated and put in 2 places? Is foo just foo and what's inside the arrays a reference to foo?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 144

Answers (2)

meder omuraliev
meder omuraliev

Reputation: 186562

EDIT: I misread. Because you are invoking the function with new you create a new object. Any object is passed by reference.

var something = function () { return 6}

var foo = new something();

typeof foo is an object so in this case it is passed by reference.

Pretty sure that foo is duplicated since it's a primitive and not an object.

Upvotes: 7

6502
6502

Reputation: 114461

What's inside the arrays are references to the same instance of something. This can be checked easily using for example chrome javascript console...

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As you can see adding a new member x to arr1[0] got it appearing on arr2[0].

Upvotes: 1

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