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

If you want to keep the console's functionality such as expanding objects in an array, I suggest using .slice, which makes a copy of the array which doesn't change when logging:

console.log("COPIED 1", copied_array.slice());