A Minute With Brendan

From a listener request, Brendan drives a relatively concise discussion around the topic of the mysterious (and often confusing) 'arguments' object that is available within a function body in JavaScript. This goes into the upcoming spread, splat, and rest parameters within function descriptions and executions.

• JavaScript arguments object
• Function.prototype.apply
• foo.arguments (old and busted) instead of arguments (better - not great)
• Harmony Rest Parameters
• Spread (Lisp) or Splat (Python)
• Argument Lists
• Array Initialiser
• var z = [1,2,3]; (function (a, b, c) { return;})(...z);
• CoffeeScript
• CoffeeScript Splats... (note the difference).