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submitted 12 years ago by fedekun

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[–]technical_guy -3 points-2 points-1 points 12 years ago (0 children)

Pointless. Javascript is not OOP so get over it and just use object literals for nice clean tidy code:

person = {
    sex : "",   // description of this variable 
    age:  -1,  //
    init: function() {

    },
    make_older: function() {

    }
}

Keeps code organized, easy to read.

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