Javascript “shift” versus “splice” - are these statements equal?

Question

I just want to confirm if the following two Javascript statements produces the same results, as it seems to me:

First:

var element = my_array.splice(0,1)         


        

Answer 1

shift returns the element that was removed, splice returns an array of elements that were removed.

that being said, the two statements do the same thing and i would agree that the second is more readable.