On Sep 11, 2014, at 4:41 PM, Reza Razavipour wrote:

> function Param(stringifiedValue) {
>     if (!this instanceof Param) {
>         return new Param(stringifiedValue);
>     }
> 
>     this.value = stringifiedValue;
> }
> 
> Is this only doing away with the user having to do a new?

Yes. If a consumer of this code writes "var p = Param()" instead of "var p = 
new Param()", the above instanceof check will make things still work right. 
Without that code, "var p = Param()" will silently fail to work in the expected 
manner.

Some more on this topic:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/383503/951159

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