Representative Line: An Array of WHY

Reader Jeremy sends us this baffling JavaScript: "Nobody on the team knows how it came to be. We think all 'they' wanted was a sequence of numbers starting at 1, but you wouldn't really know that from the code."

var numbers = new Array(maxNumber) .join() .split(',') .map(function(){return ++arguments[1]});

The end result: an array of integers starting at 1 and going up to maxNumber. This is probably the most head-scratchingest way to get that result ever devised.

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