JavaScript Array#map: index argument

Question

My question is about the map method of arrays in JavaScript.

You can pass it a function that takes a second argument, the index of the current element of th

Answer 1

The index of the current item is always passed to the callback function, the only difference if you don't declare it in the function is that you can't access it by name.

Example:

[1,2,3].map(function(o, i){
    console.log(i);
    return 0;
});

[1,2,3].map(function(o){
    console.log(arguments[1]); // it's still there
    return 0;
});

Output:

0
1
2
0
1
2

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/Guffa/k4x5vfzj/