On Jun 12, 2015, at 2:47 PM, Benjamin Gruenaum wrote: > That's good to know and it's good to know I'm not the first one to spot this. > > While we're visiting the spec on that: > > Why is it specified that "When called as a constructor it creates a new > ordinary object. When Object is called as a function rather than as a > constructor, it performs a type conversion." - wouldn't it make more sense to > remove that or specify "behaves the same way"?
yes, probably > > Where is it actually explained what Object does when called as a constructor? It doesn't because the behavior is seem in both cases. Step 1 of http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-object-value is looking for the case of a `super()` call from a subclass constructor. > > The difference - at least in the phrasing of Object vs Array seems to be just > as present in the latest spec draft from what I can tell. Yes, the Object description still contains some ancient language that should probably be removed in the future as it adds not (except perhaps confusion) to the spec. Allen
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