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Start your free trialHaardik Gupta
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 5,459 Pointsif else
i don't understand what i'm doing wrong
i'm being asked to
Inside the if statement, return a string equal to the value of the name property followed by the string " is now playing!". Use bracket notation.
const player1 = {
name: 'Ashley',
color: 'purple',
isTurn: true,
play: function(){
// write code here.
if (this.isTurn) {
console.log(this.name.value + 'is now playing');
}
}
}
4 Answers
Fabio Faria
2,153 Pointsreturn player1['name'] + "string";
Zimri Leijen
11,835 PointsThere's several terms in the question you seem to have misunderstood.
return
is a keyword that causes a function to return
something.
Certain functions have an output, which is called the return
. One example would be a sum function like
function sum(a, b) {
return a + b;
}
const answer = sum(3, 2);
console.log(answer); // should log 5
Bracket notation, as apposed to dot notation is just a different way to access a value.
this.name
would be dot notation, while
this["name"]
would be bracket notation.
Haardik Gupta
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 5,459 Pointsi tried again my new code was
const player1 = {
name: 'Ashley',
color: 'purple',
isTurn: true,
play: function(){
// write code here.
if (this.isTurn) {
return (this[name] "is now playing);
}
}
}
but i got the error invalid or unexpected token
Zimri Leijen
11,835 Points const player1 = {
name: 'Ashley',
color: 'purple',
isTurn: true,
play: function(){
// write code here.
if (this.isTurn) {
return (this[name] "is now playing);
}
}
}
That's already quite good, note that return
doesn't need parenthesis, so you can just for example
return "some string"
Since you want to return a value and a string, you can either append the string to the value like this:
return value + "string"
or use string interpolation (template literal)
return `${value} string`
Haardik Gupta
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 5,459 Pointsthank you for the help
Sezare Miguel
9,229 Points``` const player1 = { name: 'Ashley', color: 'purple', isTurn: true, play: function(){ // write code here. if (this.isTurn) { return Ashely + "is now playing"; } } }