Does it matter what order you invoke the getter and setter methods? Does get always go before set?

You would normally invoke "set" first, or else there would not be anything to "get".

But if you're talking about the order they are defined in the class, that makes no difference.

In JavaScript the order of function definitions doesn't matter because of function hoisting. Order matters in other languages.

Steven Parker

Thanks for the correction on methods inside classes. Though, in trying to confirm what you've said I've had trouble finding a clear answer for why the order of class methods doesn't matter.

According to MDN's documentation classes are not hoisted. However, I've also read that classes are hoisted, but just not initialized until evaluated thus the reason for not calling a class' functions until after the object is instantiated.

This post also says that hoisting of functions happens within block scope. So am I correct in concluding this is the reason that the order of functions within a class do not matter? Or is it only that we could never have a function inside a class that can directly call another function in that class? I couldn't come up with any.

Thanks Steven. That makes sense.