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1-js/04-object-basics/05-object-toprimitive/article.md

@@ -155,14 +155,21 @@ alert(user + 500); // toString -> John500
 
 In the absence of `Symbol.toPrimitive` and `valueOf`, `toString` will handle all primitive conversions.
 
-
-## ToPrimitive and ToString/ToNumber
+## Return types
 
 The important thing to know about all primitive-conversion methods is that they do not necessarily return the "hinted" primitive.
 
 There is no control whether `toString()` returns exactly a string, or whether `Symbol.toPrimitive` method returns a number for a hint "number".
 
-**The only mandatory thing: these methods must return a primitive.**
+The only mandatory thing: these methods must return a primitive, not an object.
+
+```smart header="Historical notes"
+For historical reasons, if `toString` or `valueOf` return an object, there's no error, but such value is ignored (like if the method didn't exist). That's because in ancient times there was no good "error" concept in JavaScript.
+
+In contrast, `Symbol.toPrimitive` *must* return a primitive, otherwise there will be an error.
+```
+
+## Further operations
 
 An operation that initiated the conversion gets that primitive, and then continues to work with it, applying further conversions if necessary.
 
@@ -204,11 +211,6 @@ For instance:
     alert(obj + 2); // 3 (ToPrimitive returned boolean, not string => ToNumber)
     ```
 
-```smart header="Historical notes"
-For historical reasons, methods `toString` or `valueOf` *should* return a primitive: if any of them returns an object, then there's no error, but that object is ignored (like if the method didn't exist).
-
-In contrast, `Symbol.toPrimitive` *must* return a primitive, otherwise, there will be an error.
-```
 
 ## Summary
 

1-js/05-data-types/04-array/article.md

@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ alert( fruits );
 
 ## Internals
 
-An array is a special kind of object. The square brackets used to access a property `arr[0]` actually come from the object syntax. Numbers are used as keys. 
+An array is a special kind of object. The square brackets used to access a property `arr[0]` actually come from the object syntax. That's essentially the same as `obj[key]`, where `arr` is the object, while numbers are used as keys.
 
 They extend objects providing special methods to work with ordered collections of data and also the `length` property. But at the core it's still an object.
 
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ But that's actually a bad idea. There are potential problems with it:
 
     There are so-called "array-like" objects in the browser and in other environments, that *look like arrays*. That is, they have `length` and indexes properties, but they may also have other non-numeric properties and methods, which we usually don't need. The `for..in` loop will list them though. So if we need to work with array-like objects, then these "extra" properties can become a problem.
 
-2. The `for..in` loop is optimized for generic objects, not arrays, and thus is 10-100 times slower. Of course, it's still very fast. The speedup may only matter in bottlenecks or seem irrelevant. But still we should be aware of the difference.
+2. The `for..in` loop is optimized for generic objects, not arrays, and thus is 10-100 times slower. Of course, it's still very fast. The speedup may only matter in bottlenecks. But still we should be aware of the difference.
 
 Generally, we shouldn't use `for..in` for arrays.
 
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ To evade such surprises, we usually use square brackets, unless we really know w
 
 ## Multidimensional arrays
 
-Arrays can have items that are also arrays. We can use it for multidimensional arrays, to store matrices:
+Arrays can have items that are also arrays. We can use it for multidimensional arrays, for example to store matrices:
 
 ```js run
 let matrix = [
@@ -461,4 +461,3 @@ To loop over the elements of the array:
   - `for (let i in arr)` -- never use.
 
 We will return to arrays and study more methods to add, remove, extract elements and sort arrays in the chapter <info:array-methods>.
-