In ECMAScript 5, all keywords can be used as property identifiers. Old browsers will fail, so if you need to support old ones, you'd need to use the ["super"]
syntax.
Is it ok to use the super keyword as a method name?
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25-06-2023 - |
Question
I see that most frameworks do not use the keyword super
on their object, instead they use something like _super
I understand that it's a keyword but is it safe & acceptable to use it as a method name like this
var Class = function() {
this.super = function(){};
};
var instance = new Class()
instance.super()
It works fine in Chrome with "use strict"
mode on.
Side note, I know that coffeescript "escapes" it like this["super"]
, surely their must be a real reason for that.
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