span class="mdzsyn-number">92</span>)</code></pre><p>Note that for Arrays and Buffers, putting an index that is outside the length of the data structure
will extend the data structure and fill it with nils in the case of the Array,
or 0s in the case of the Buffer.
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<p>The last generic function for all data structures is the <code class="mendoza-code">length</code> function. This returns the number of
values in a data structure (the number of keys in a dictionary type).
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