assign

Copies properties from a given thing. Existing properties will be overwritten and new properties will be added. If this function is used on a typed thing, all properties of the source must be valid according the type specification, otherwise an exception will be raised and no properties will be copied.

This function generates a change.

Function

thing.assign(source)

Arguments

Return value

Returns the thing to which the properties are assigned.

Example

This code shows an example using assign():

scores = {
    iris: 10,
    job: 20
};

scores.assign({
    job: 80,
    tijs: 90
});

Return value in JSON format

{
    "iris": 10,
    "job": 80,
    "tijs": 90
}