Ok, (ranting time) so is this the worst name for a function? MDN starts the description:
“The splice() method changes the contents of an array by removing existing elements and/or adding new elements.”
So this function does a lot…so you can actually remove elements and at the same time add elements. Why? This just breaks software design at its core.
Every time I see a splice, I have to look at the arguments. No idea what the function does from its name, so it literally makes code unreadable. It would nice to see code like this:
let array = [1,2,3];
array.removeAt(0); //array is [2,3]
array.insertAt(0, 4); //array is now [4,2,3]but instead we see code like this:
let array = [1,2,3];
array.splice(0,1);
array.splice(0,0,4);Whats more readable?
So I’m not sure why the Javascript spec doesn’t change for array. Its not hard to add a couple new functions. Of course splice would have to be kept around forever, but encourage people to use the newer methods.