Classes & OOP

Djazair implements fully featured Object-Oriented programming including classes, constructors, methods, and single inheritance.

Class Declaration

Declare classes, instantiate objects, and refer to properties inside methods via the self prefix:

class User
    init(name, email)
        self.name = name
        self.email = email
    end

    describe()
        return "${self.name} &lt;${self.email}&gt;"
    end
end

let admin = new User("Riad", "riad@djazair.org")
print(admin.describe())

Inheritance

Inherit classes using the is keyword. Override parent functions and trigger parent constructors using the super namespace keyword:

class Staff is User
    init(name, email, role)
        super.init(name, email)
        self.role = role
    end

    describe()
        return "${super.describe()} [Role: ${self.role}]"
    end
end

let mod = new Staff("Sara", "sara@djazair.org", "Moderator")
print(mod.describe())