Array.prototype.slice()

const animals = ["ant", "bison", "camel", "duck", "elephant"];

console.log(animals.slice(2));
// Expected output: Array ["camel", "duck", "elephant"]

console.log(animals.slice(2, 4));
// Expected output: Array ["camel", "duck"]

console.log(animals.slice(1, 5));
// Expected output: Array ["bison", "camel", "duck", "elephant"]

console.log(animals.slice(-2));
// Expected output: Array ["duck", "elephant"]

console.log(animals.slice(2, -1));
// Expected output: Array ["camel", "duck"]

console.log(animals.slice());
// Expected output: Array ["ant", "bison", "camel", "duck", "elephant"]

arr.slice([begin[, end]])

var fruits = ["Banana", "Orange", "Lemon", "Apple", "Mango"];
var citrus = fruits.slice(1, 3);

// fruits contains ['Banana', 'Orange', 'Lemon', 'Apple', 'Mango']
// citrus contains ['Orange','Lemon']

// Using slice, create newCar from myCar.
var myHonda = { color: "red", wheels: 4, engine: { cylinders: 4, size: 2.2 } };
var myCar = [myHonda, 2, "cherry condition", "purchased 1997"];
var newCar = myCar.slice(0, 2);

// Display the values of myCar, newCar, and the color of myHonda
//  referenced from both arrays.
console.log("myCar = " + JSON.stringify(myCar));
console.log("newCar = " + JSON.stringify(newCar));
console.log("myCar[0].color = " + myCar[0].color);
console.log("newCar[0].color = " + newCar[0].color);

// Change the color of myHonda.
myHonda.color = "purple";
console.log("The new color of my Honda is " + myHonda.color);

// Display the color of myHonda referenced from both arrays.
console.log("myCar[0].color = " + myCar[0].color);
console.log("newCar[0].color = " + newCar[0].color);

myCar = [{color: 'red', wheels: 4, engine: {cylinders: 4, size: 2.2}}, 2,
         'cherry condition', 'purchased 1997']
newCar = [{color: 'red', wheels: 4, engine: {cylinders: 4, size: 2.2}}, 2]
myCar[0].color = red
newCar[0].color = red
The new color of my Honda is purple
myCar[0].color = purple
newCar[0].color = purple

function list() {
  return Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);
}

var list1 = list(1, 2, 3); // [1, 2, 3]

var unboundSlice = Array.prototype.slice;
var slice = Function.prototype.call.bind(unboundSlice);

function list() {
  return slice(arguments);
}

var list1 = list(1, 2, 3); // [1, 2, 3]

/**
 * Shim for "fixing" IE's lack of support (IE < 9) for applying slice
 * on host objects like NamedNodeMap, NodeList, and HTMLCollection
 * (technically, since host objects have been implementation-dependent,
 * at least before ES2015, IE hasn't needed to work this way).
 * Also works on strings, fixes IE < 9 to allow an explicit undefined
 * for the 2nd argument (as in Firefox), and prevents errors when
 * called on other DOM objects.
 */
(function () {
  "use strict";
  var _slice = Array.prototype.slice;

  try {
    // Can't be used with DOM elements in IE < 9
    _slice.call(document.documentElement);
  } catch (e) {
    // Fails in IE < 9
    // This will work for genuine arrays, array-like objects,
    // NamedNodeMap (attributes, entities, notations),
    // NodeList (e.g., getElementsByTagName), HTMLCollection (e.g., childNodes),
    // and will not fail on other DOM objects (as do DOM elements in IE < 9)
    Array.prototype.slice = function (begin, end) {
      // IE < 9 gets unhappy with an undefined end argument
      end = typeof end !== "undefined" ? end : this.length;

      // For native Array objects, we use the native slice function
      if (Object.prototype.toString.call(this) === "[object Array]") {
        return _slice.call(this, begin, end);
      }

      // For array like object we handle it ourselves.
      var i,
        cloned = [],
        size,
        len = this.length;

      // Handle negative value for "begin"
      var start = begin || 0;
      start = start >= 0 ? start : Math.max(0, len + start);

      // Handle negative value for "end"
      var upTo = typeof end == "number" ? Math.min(end, len) : len;
      if (end < 0) {
        upTo = len + end;
      }

      // Actual expected size of the slice
      size = upTo - start;

      if (size > 0) {
        cloned = new Array(size);
        if (this.charAt) {
          for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
            cloned[i] = this.charAt(start + i);
          }
        } else {
          for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
            cloned[i] = this[start + i];
          }
        }
      }

      return cloned;
    };
  }
})();