hi,
Just working through some tutorials on Javascript and it's use in HTML5 and we've just started on objects (which I think are just arrays of data).
However, it's talking about properties of objects and shows two examples
fido.weight - which is 40
fido["breed"] - which is mixed
it makes out that you should always use the ["string"] method when the property is a string and the . method when it's a integer but doesn't really explain why.
I've tried the . method with both and it works fine.
Is there a reason to use them both or is it industry standard to just use the . method?
noob question I know but I don't like bad habits.
Just working through some tutorials on Javascript and it's use in HTML5 and we've just started on objects (which I think are just arrays of data).
However, it's talking about properties of objects and shows two examples
fido.weight - which is 40
fido["breed"] - which is mixed
it makes out that you should always use the ["string"] method when the property is a string and the . method when it's a integer but doesn't really explain why.
I've tried the . method with both and it works fine.
Is there a reason to use them both or is it industry standard to just use the . method?

noob question I know but I don't like bad habits.