OOP -> Create a method on an Object: Arrow function should be accepted

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.

  **Your code so far**


let dog = {
  name: "Spot",
  numLegs: 4,
  sayLegs: () =>  `This dog has ${this.numLegs} legs.`;
};

dog.sayLegs();

  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.101 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Create a Method on an Object

Link to the challenge:

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:grey_question:

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Your code does not run due to malformed syntax. If you fix the syntax error, you’ll see why an arrow function doesn’t work here as you’ve written it.

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this keyword behaves differently for regular and arrow functions; this is where your syntax error stems from

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Well, that and the misplaced ;

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right, i didnt even notice the semicolon; i went straight to the challenge and tried to solve with an arrow function and use this , which obviously didnt work.

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