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JavaScript Object-Oriented JavaScript Object Basics Filling Out the Play Method

Mathew McRae
Mathew McRae
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Posted by Mathew McRae
Mathew McRae
1,613 Points

Creating empty if statement in 'play' method using dot notation

I've tried the following inside player1.play method: if isTurn { ... } if this.isTurn { ... } if isTurn === true { ... } if this.isTurn === true { ... }

None of these seem to work in terms of creating an empty if statement inside the 'play' method.

Thanks in advance.

Mathew

object.js 
const player1 = {
    name: 'Ashley',
    color: 'purple',
    isTurn: true,
    play: function(){
        if isTurn {

        }
    }
}

2 Answers

Rohald van Merode
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Rohald van Merode
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Hi Matthew Walter 👋

Looks like you're missing the parentheses around the conditional. 

const player1 = {
    name: 'Ashley',
    color: 'purple',
    isTurn: true,
    play: function(){
      if (this.isTurn){
      }
    }
}
Mathew McRae
Mathew McRae
1,613 Points
Mathew McRae
Mathew McRae
1,613 Points

Thanks Rohald and thanks for the answer. I was getting myself mixed up with Python. I've now included the parentheses. I was also missing "this.isTurn" within the parentheses.

Thanks again for your help.