Combine Arrays with the Spread Operator -- help

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The following is the last sentence in the explanation of this exercise. Could someone use these “traditional methods” and show me how it would have been done without the spread operator?

Using spread syntax, we have just achieved an operation that would have been more more complex and more verbose had we used traditional methods.

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function spreadOut() {
  let fragment = ['to', 'code'];
  let sentence = ["learning", ...fragment, "is", "fun"]; // change this line
  return sentence;
}

// do not change code below this line
console.log(spreadOut());

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Without using ES6, it would have looked something like this.

function spreadOut() {
  let fragment = ['to', 'code'];
  sentence = ["learning"];
  for(let index = 0; index < fragment.length; index++){
    sentence.push(fragment[index]);
  }
  sentence.push("is", "fun");
  return sentence;
}

A little bit more complicated, but you’ll save several lines of code if you use the spread operator.

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