2009/2/10 Jim Higson <j...@333.org>:
>
>> > What does new String("bob") offer over normal "bob"?
>>
>> As far as I know, nothing. Hence my assertion that Prototype should
>> treat object strings as if they were a normal string.
>
> Hmmm... actually I should have said "nothing I've ever found
> useful" :-)
>
> With strings-that-look-like-strings-but-are-really-objects because
> they are objects you can add properties and things to them.
>
> For example this works:
>
> var obstr = new String("foo");
> foo.titlecase = function (){ /* ... */ };
>
> but not this:
>
> var str = "foo";
> foo.titlecase = function (){ /* ... */ };
>
> But, personally, I think this is confusing the definition of strings
> and you're better off either adding to String.prototype (which will
> make the method usable for all strings of both types) or just
> providing a titlecase function that takes a string as an argument.
>
> --
> Jim
> blog:http://jimhigson.blogspot.com/
> web:http://wikizzle.org
> >
>
>>> var s_String = "foo"
>>> s_String
"foo"
>>> s_String.titlecase = function(){return substring(this,1,1).toUpperCase() +
>>> substring(this,2);}
function()
So, you CAN add it. I suspect it is an internal object is created and
then dropped.
Completely useless.
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