>Why? Well, simply because that's how the specification says it should be.
I'm taking a guess here, trying to justify this and would appreciate feedback in my thinking. Since new has to set up the prototype chain, it would necessarily have to return an object since primitives do not have properties and methods. Does this sound right? -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@jsmentors.com/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@googlegroups.com/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jsmentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
