Looking at Languages (C#, Javascript & Ruby) 3: Classes

  • Posted by liammclennan on November 27, 2009
  • 1 comments

Javascript does not have classes in the traditional sense, but we can achieve something similar in a number of ways. C# and Ruby both have standard class syntax.

This post is part of a series comparing the language features of the C#, Javascript and Ruby programming languages.

C#

 

public class Vehicle
    {
        protected string Make { get; private set; }
        protected string Model { get; private set; }

        public Vehicle(string make, string model)
        {
            Make = make;
            Model = model;
        }

        public virtual void Print()
        {
            Console.WriteLine(GetDescription());
        }

        protected string GetDescription()
        {
            // string formatting syntax             return string.Format("Make: {0}  Model: {1}", Make, Model);
        }
    }

    public class Helicopter : Vehicle   // inheritance syntax     {
        public int NumberOfRotorBlades { get; private set; }

        public Helicopter(int numberOfRotorBlades, string make, string model)
            : base(make, model)
        {
            NumberOfRotorBlades = numberOfRotorBlades;
        }

        public override void Print()
        {
            // string concatenation syntax             Console.WriteLine(GetDescription() + " Number of Rotor Blades:" + NumberOfRotorBlades);
        }
    }

 

Javascript

Class:

// declare vehicle 'class' var vehicle = function(seed) {
  var that = {};
  
  // private method     var getDescription = function() {
    return "Make: " + seed.make + "  Model: " + seed.model;
  };

  // public method   that.print = function() {
    alert(getDescription());
  };

  return that;
};

// instantiate a vehicle var magna = vehicle({
  make: 'Mitsubishi',
  model: 'Magna' });  magna.print();

Derived class:

 // declare helicopter 'class' var helicopter = function(seed) {
  var that = {};
  that.prototype = vehicle(seed);

  var getDescription = function() {
    return "Make: " + seed.make + "  Model: " + seed.model;
  };
  
  that.print = function() {
    alert(getDescription() + " Number of Rotor Blades:" + seed.numberOfRotorBlades);
  };

  return that;
};

// instantiate a helicopter var ah64 = helicopter({
  make: 'Hughes Helicopters',
  model: 'AH-64',
  numberOfRotorBlades: 4 });  ah64.print();

Ruby

 class Vehicle    def initialize(make, model)     @make = make;
    @model = model;
  end

  def print
    puts get_description
  end

private

  def get_description
    return "Make: #{@make} Model: #{@model}"   end  end  magna = Vehicle.new('Mitsubishi', 'Magna')
magna.print

class Helicopter < Vehicle

  def initialize(make, model, number_of_rotors)
    super(make, model)
    @number_of_rotors = number_of_rotors
  end

  def print
    puts get_description + " Number of Rotors: #{@number_of_rotors}"   end  end  ah64 = Helicopter.new("Hughes Helicopters", "AH-64", 4)
ah64.print

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