On 13 January 2011 18:34, Peter van der Zee <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Joel Dart <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>   >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?
>>
>> Well, you're correct, although I wouldn't have put it like that.
>

Like what? Big and blue? ;)

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