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

angelod
angelod
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Posted by angelod
angelod
6,694 Points

Inside the play method, write an empty if statement that checks if it's the players turn. Use dot notation. help

Why isn't this working?

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

      }
    }
}

1 Answer

Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,735 Points

In the error message it says "Are you using the this keyword?". Also, you don't need to use === to test if a boolean expression is true, you can just test the boolean expression itself.

JavaScript

if (this.isTurn) {}
angelod
angelod
6,694 Points
angelod
angelod
6,694 Points

was my way correct though? but ty

Stephen Acheson
Stephen Acheson
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Stephen Acheson
Stephen Acheson
7,412 Points

Thanks for THIS Brendan (the pun police have been notified). I keep forgetting, when inside an object, to use 'this' and not the object name. One day I'll remember ;)