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== Why is this an issue?
Defining a object's methods inside the object itself means that a new instance of the function is created for each instantiation of the object, bloating the instances.
Instead, it is more efficient to define the functions outside the object using the ``++prototype++`` keyword. This yields a single instance of each function, to which all the objects of that type refer.
=== Noncompliant code example
[source,javascript]
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function Person(firstName, middleInitial, lastName) {
this.firstName = firstName;
this.middleInitial = middleInitial;
this.lastName = lastName;
this.nameReversed = function() { // Noncompliant
return this.lastName + ", " + this.firstName + " " + this.middleInitial;
}
}
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=== Compliant solution
[source,javascript]
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function Person(firstName, middleInitial, lastName) {
this.firstName = firstName;
this.middleInitial = middleInitial;
this.lastName = lastName;
}
Person.prototype.nameReversed = function() {
return this.lastName + ", " + this.firstName + " " + this.middleInitial;
}
----
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