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

Not sure

I declared the boolean inside of the if statement but its still not runnning

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

      if(player1.isTurn === true){
        console.log('player1 is true');
      }
        // write code here.
    }
}

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,184 Points

When referencing object variables, they should be preceded by the "this" keyword instead of the object name. Also, booleans never need to be compared to "true", they can be directly tested by just naming them.

      if (this.isTurn) {

Thank you very mcuh