2011/1/15 Vishal Singh <[email protected]>:
> 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?
It depends on the view of what is considered a property or method.
>>> console.log(typeof "string".replace)
function
>>> console.log((1.23456).toFixed(2))
1.23
>>> console.log("what is my".length)
10
It looks to me that primitives has methods and properties.
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