Kripken wrote:

>     OK, but that's odd... somewhere internally there must be a reference
>     from each object to its prototype.  We can see this in the way
>     properties are looked up.  But, if we don't store it ourselves, there is
>     really no way to find out what that prototype is?
> 
> Not that I'm aware of.
> 
> Generally speaking, frameworks for inheritance in JavaScript (e.g., 
> http://ejohn.org/blog/simple-javascript-inheritance/ ) manually set the 
> constructor, as part of whatever other setup they do, so that things 
> work the way people expect.

OK, fair enough.  In the last week, I've gone from knowing almost 
nothing about JavaScript, to thinking I knew everything about it, to 
realizing that I knew nothing about it, to (now) realizing that what I 
thought there was to know doesn't actually exist!

Thanks,
- Joe




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