Question

I have the following code and was wondering why I am not allowed to create another object within another.

CODE

//Object initializer
    var shoe = {
            size: 10,
            make: var maketype = {
                this.brand: "rebook"
            },
            availability: "now"
        }

Answer 1

You can do that very well. It’s the extra var maketype = that is illegal (and also this as part of a property name).

This works:

var shoe = {
        size: 10,
        make: {
            brand: "rebook"
        },
        availability: "now"
    }

If you want to retain a separate reference to the make, you can do it like this:

var maketype = { brand: "reebok" },
    shoe = {
        size: 10,
        make: maketype,
        availability: "now"
    }