firstfive | nice little script to run in your first five minutes | Configuration Management library

if you're looking to take 5, then you just need to put them in the session and then process them with a .foreach block.

so instead of taking the first five and trying to make exec calls (which, as you observed, won't work), save the list back to the session

Your dictFive array is being spliced each time the function is called.

When you set possWords = dictFive, and then splice possWords later, you're also splicing dictFive because both variables refer to the same array. Then, the second time the function is run, dictFive is still in its spliced state. Instead of setting possWords = dictFive, try making a copy of the array. That way, you'll splice the copy without affecting the original, dictFive. You can clone an array by possWords = dictFive.slice().

A queue is a queue because it has an enqueue and a dequeue method, which add and remove from opposite ends of the queue respectively. A queue is not guaranteed to provide other functionality.

If you wanted to remove a specific element in the middle, you could implement an algorithm that does this on a queue - for example, dequeue every element except the element-of-interest into another queue, and then enqueue them all again back into the original queue.

However, if you're going to be removing elements in the middle from your data structure, I doubt you really want to be using a queue at all. There are far more efficient implementations for this operation on other data structures, such as (unconstrained) Linked Lists or indexed data structures.