== Why is this an issue?

Instead of creating an array and then setting its items one by one, creation an initialization can - and should - happen all in one step. Doing so results in clearer code and eliminates the possibility that an item might be accidentally overwritten or left uninitialized.


=== Noncompliant code example

[source,javascript]
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var colors = [];  // Noncompliant
colors[1] = "red";  // Oops! Explicit initialization means that the 0th element is left empty
colors[2] = "green";
colors[2] = "blue"; // Oops again! "green" overwritten
----


=== Compliant solution

[source,javascript]
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var colors = ["red","green","blue"];
----


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== Implementation Specification
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=== Message

Create and initialize the "xxx" array using array literal syntax.


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== Comments And Links
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