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JavaScript JavaScript Foundations Objects Methods

Purvi Agrawal
Purvi Agrawal
7,960 Points
Posted by Purvi Agrawal
Purvi Agrawal
7,960 Points

Having a Hard Time to understand the Question and the Instructor !

The Question is :

On 'andrew' and 'ryan', set the 'greet' method as the 'genericGreet' function.

My code :

var genericGreet = function() { return "Hello, my name is " + this.name; }

  var andrew = {
    name: "Andrew"
  }

  var ryan = {
    name: "Ryan"
  }

  var greet = andrew.genericGreet;

  var greet = ryan.genericGreet;

It says : Bummer! The 'greet' method on 'andrew' and 'ryan' should be the 'genericGreet' function.

4 Answers

Jason Atkinson
Jason Atkinson
26,245 Points
Jason Atkinson
Jason Atkinson
26,245 Points

greet is a method not a variable so it doesnt need to set a variable, heres another way to think about it:

<script>
var genericGreet = function() { return "Hello, my name is " + this.name; }

/* or you can also try */

function genericGreet() { return "Hello, my name is " + this.name; }

/* they should do the same thing */

  var andrew = {
/* adding a comma then include the greet method and set it to genericGreet being
 CAREFUL about CAPS you dont need to put the () after the genericGreet function
 as the function was already created above */
    name: "Andrew",
    greet: genericGreet
  }

  var ryan = {
    name: "Ryan",
    greet: genericGreet
  }
</script>

if thats not working im not sure what else the problem can be.

Jason Atkinson
Jason Atkinson
26,245 Points
Jason Atkinson
Jason Atkinson
26,245 Points

hint: the greet: needs to be inside the variables Andrew and Ryan not on there own. (greet: GenericGreet ) greet is also a method not a variable

Purvi Agrawal
Purvi Agrawal
7,960 Points
Purvi Agrawal
Purvi Agrawal
7,960 Points

Hi Jason, Thank You for the reply. I did that too when I was trying but it is giving me a Syntax Error. Not sure what I am doing wrong.

Here is the code : var greet : genericGreet

Is this how we will write ?

Purvi Agrawal
Purvi Agrawal
7,960 Points
Purvi Agrawal
Purvi Agrawal
7,960 Points

Thank You Jason !! It worked.