JavaScript console prints assigned value of variable before it has been assigned?

Question

I\'m deeply confused by the behaviour of either JavaScript, or the Chrome console. Can someone help me understand?

Basically I have the following JavaScript code, no

Answer 1

console.log("COPIED 1", JSON.stringify(copied_array));

Should be fine for debugging

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it's a BUG you have mentioned, see below

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35801

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