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static set circlesMade(val) { this._count = val; }; What's the value of "this" here?

• dsp1234 11y ago
  It's the class constructor function. Something like: Function Circle(){} Circle.circlesMade(val) = function circlesMade(val){ this._count = val; }
  • pags 11y ago
    That's strange, coming from Java.
    • dsp1234 11y ago
      That's a validation of some of the other discussion in the thread. JavaScript gets a 'class' keyword, but it's really just syntactic sugar over prototypical inheritance. So there is some misunderstanding about what it does and doesn't do. That said, it could have also been written as: static set circlesMade(val) { Circle._count = val; }; which means the exact same thing, and would maybe help people to understand that "_count" is just like a static class property on the Circle "class"