Question

This snippet is what I found in the book [Javascript – the good parts]

It simply did not work. Missing ‘}’ in the “var myObject…” line as IE8 described an error.

Anything that I missed?

// Create myObject. It has a value and an increment
// method. The increment method takes an optional
// parameter. If the argument is not a number, then 1
// is used as the default.

var myObject = {
    value: 0;
    increment: function (inc) {
        this.value += typeof inc === 'number' ? inc : 1;
    }
};

myObject.increment(  );
document.writeln(myObject.value);    // 1

myObject.increment(2);
document.writeln(myObject.value);    // 3

Answer 1

In object literals, properties are separated by commas (,), not semicolons (;). Change this:

value: 0;

to this:

value: 0,