Problem with JS classes

[plasticle]

i am currently defining the variables for a game i’m making. there is a Life class that i use to define various types of life, from each of which tons of life forms can be generated.
for example, the Plant object uses the Life class as a template to generate different forms of plants. I’m using a class template for various features of the game so that later, i can make the game moddable with a text file.

so with the object i’m containing the various types of life, i believe i made a mistake. i can’t find out what’s wrong with it, but every line of code before the object works, and every line after does not. safari IOS does not support Glitch’s debugger, and when i pasted the code into an online IDE, it said that the Life object did not exist.

i am losing my mind over this, someone help me find out what’s wrong so i can actually start *making * the game. i have pretty much every detail planned and pseudocoded, and this is the one thing holding me back.

(both those links lead to the game)

[wh0]

here’s what I’m seeing in my browser console

Uncaught TypeError: life is undefined
https://novemportgame.glitch.me/variables.js:415

var life = { // line 342
...
life: [life.microbe(), life.animal()], // line 415
...
}; // line 459

see how on line 415 it tries to access life to get life.microbe() and life.animal()? although that’s lower in the source code than the var life = ..., it runs before setting up a scope entry for the variable name life. It has to finish creating the object (including running all of these expressions) before creating that life variable.

[plasticle]

so it would be better to use strings instead, and then later use the strings to refer to the objects in a getKeys() type function.

[plasticle]

okay… i look into it, and i’ll use getOwnPropertyNames in the future. thanks.