ECMAScript 2015 classes and modules
We've seen so far that it is perfectly possible to build classes and even modules in pre ECMAScript -2015 JavaScript. The syntax is, obviously, a bit more involved than in a language such as C# or Java. Fortunately ECMAScript-2015, brings support for some syntactic sugar for making classes:
class Castle extends Westeros.Structures.BaseStructure { constructor(name, allegience) { super(name); ... } Build() { ... super.Build(); } }
ECMAScript-2015 also brings a well thought out module system for JavaScript. There's also syntactic sugar for creating modules which looks like this:
module 'Westeros' { export function Rule(rulerName, house) { ... return "Long live " + rulerName + " of house " + house; } }
As modules can ...
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