Coffeescript Instance Method Encapsulation In An Object

Say I have a Coffeescript class: class Foo MyMethodsBar: () => 'bar' MyMethodsBaz: () => 'baz' Is there any way to encapsulate methods like this (not working): class Foo

Solution 1:

Nope, this is not possible, unless you create MyMethods inside the constructor and bind this to the methods. At which point you pretty much loose the benefits of using a class.

That's because when you call a method via f.MyMethods.bar(), this will refer to f.MyMethods. To prevent that, you could bind bar to specific object beforehand. However, at the moment you are defining bar, the instance of Foo to which this should refer to (f) does not exist yet, so you can't bind it outside of the constructor.

You could call the method with f.MyMethods.bar.call(f), but that's rather cumbersome.