ES has "new Constructor()" as its basic syntax for construction. This means that if other constructors are also beneficial that the syntax to call them is inconsistent. For example, ES3 had the "String.fromCharCode" and ES5 added "Object.create". These are both constructors of sorts. Would it be possible to add "String.new" etc so that construction is consistent?
Unfortunately Date.now, Date.parse, Date.UTC don't return Date objects as they would be elegant cases of being other constructors. Yes in order to get consistent syntax, host objects would need to implement the static "new" method. (I remember the idea of being able to write "String.new" rather than having to write "String['new']" was discussed in the past. I don't know if keywords as bare object keys are allowed in ECMAScript but it seems to work in Firefox.) Peter _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
