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cameroneckelberry2
8,701 PointsAny ideas of the derivation of "unshift" in JavaScript?
It helps me when I get the origin of the word or some sense of why it is called that. Anyone have any ideas? I know Dave the teacher says it is a confusing name.
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Colton Ehrman
Courses Plus Student 5,859 PointsEhhh not really sure about why they called it shift() and unshift() but my guess is they came up with the name shift() first then basically used unshift() to mean the opposite of whatever shift() is suppose to mean. Really the best way to remember what they do is to kind of mentally group them with pop() and push(), and just know they do the same stuff just on the other side of the array... hopefully this helps :)
cameroneckelberry2
8,701 Pointscameroneckelberry2
8,701 PointsHey man, thanks for your answer, I still think I need to do a bit more research on this. But I do appreciate you taking the time to answer me though!