I cannot declare and create an object in one line

#1

I’ve come across two ways of defining classes in p5.js.

The first: https://editor.p5js.org/femkeblanco/sketches/Vycw0YkNr
The second: https://editor.p5js.org/femkeblanco/sketches/YXi8pCrRQ

I presume the second way, which I came across in the book “Getting Started with p5.js”, is legacy. Is that correct?

My main question is the following:

I cannot declare and create an object in one line at the top using the first way: https://editor.p5js.org/femkeblanco/sketches/f7xH0mqRX

I have to create the object in setup(): https://editor.p5js.org/femkeblanco/sketches/Vycw0YkNr

But I can declare and create an object in one line at the top using the second way: https://editor.p5js.org/femkeblanco/sketches/YXi8pCrRQ

Why, why and why?

Your help is appreciated and thanks in advance.

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#2

JS got 6 keywords that can be used to declare variables:

  1. var -> Developer.Mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/var
  2. function -> Developer.Mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/function
  3. let -> Developer.Mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/let
  4. const -> Developer.Mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/const
  5. class -> Developer.Mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/class
  6. import -> Developer.Mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/import

Outta those 6 declaration keywords, the primeval 1s var & function, which existed since the very beginning of JS, got an exotic behavior called hoisting:

Variables declared via var or function already exist from the top, even when they’re declared much further down!

For a more detailed explanation about hoisting, go to the article’s link below:
2ality-com.OnRender.com/2019/05/unpacking-hoisting.html

Given keyword class doesn’t hoist like function does, as a workaround, move the whole class to the top, before it’s used by anything else.

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