Self Printing JavaScript Literals

Ajax Blogs - 324 days ago Posted by bluray

Are you ever sick of seeing Object get printed out when you try to output a variable to your console.
Oliver Steele talks about Self Printing JavaScript Literals where you can clean that up with a toString:
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JAVASCRIPT:


function makeLiteral(name) {return {toString:function(){return name}}}
var L1 = makeLiteral("L1");
var L2 = makeLiteral("L2");
L1
//>>> L1<

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