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Re: Calling constructor function with or without new

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Joao Rodrigues wrote:

> Thomas Lahn wrote:
>> Joao Rodrigues wrote:
 >>> | This is the HTML rendering of Ecma-262 Edition 5.1, The ECMAScript
>>> | Language Specification.
>>> |
>>> | The PDF rendering of this document is located at http://www.ecma-> |
>>> | international.org/ecma-262/5.1/ECMA-262.pdf.
>>> |
>>> | The PDF version is the definitive specification. Any discrepancies
>>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> | between this HTML version and the PDF version are unintentional.
>> 
>> AISB, the HTML version is _not_ the normative (or, as Jason Orendorff put
>> it there, the "definitive") one.  It never was.  The PDF versions are 
>> those that the Ecma International General Assembly voted on, the 
>> *normative* ones.
> 
> Ecma does not affirm there is a normative or a non-normative version of
> the specification.

Yes, they do, in the very source that you are citing and quoting from.  

> That confusion lies only within your delusional mind.

/Ad hominem/ when you are out of good arguments.  I see.

> The preamble mentioned contains a legal disclaimer about any
> unintentional discrepancies between the two versions:
> 
> | Any discrepancies between this HTML version and the PDF version
> | are unintentional.

However, if there are discrepancies, then the PDF version is the one that 
matters, the “definitive” or the “normative” one.  Because it is the one the 
Ecma membership has seen and voted on (they voted on a final draft that 
would undergo changes editorial in nature at most, as from Edition 5 to the 
5.1 Edition), that they thereby declared an industry standard or *norm*.

If you do not understand the standardization processes of the computer 
industry, and you really do not, I strongly suggest you get yourself 
informed about it on the respective Web sites, and do not post on the 
subject again until you did that.

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Calling constructor function with or without new Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-06-08 00:08 +1000
  Re: Calling constructor function with or without new Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2015-06-07 19:46 +0200
    Re: Calling constructor function with or without new Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-06-07 21:50 -0300
      Re: Calling constructor function with or without new Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-06-09 15:05 +0200
        Re: Calling constructor function with or without new Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-06-09 12:45 -0300
          Re: Calling constructor function with or without new Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-06-09 18:32 +0200
            Re: Calling constructor function with or without new Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-06-09 14:51 -0300
              Re: Calling constructor function with or without new Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-06-09 22:39 +0200
                Re: Calling constructor function with or without new Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-06-09 19:36 -0300
                Re: Calling constructor function with or without new Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-06-10 18:14 +0200
                Re: Calling constructor function with or without new Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-06-10 14:13 -0300
                Re: Calling constructor function with or without new Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-06-10 19:34 +0200
                Re: Calling constructor function with or without new Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-06-10 14:57 -0300
                Re: Calling constructor function with or without new Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-06-10 20:00 +0200
                Re: Calling constructor function with or without new Dr J R Stockton <reply1500@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-06-11 21:44 +0100
                Re: Calling constructor function with or without new Hans-Georg Michna <hans-georgNoEmailPlease@michna.com> - 2015-06-11 10:36 +0200
                Re: Calling constructor function with or without new Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2015-06-11 06:16 -0700
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