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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: What is this inside a function?
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 19:19:18 +0200
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> Christoph M. Becker wrote:
>> Cf. <http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-13.2.2>.
> 
> Correct, and this has practical implications:
> 
>   function Person2(name, age)
>   {
>     if (!(this instanceof Person2)) return new Person2(name, age);
>     
>     this.name = name;
>     this.age = age;
>   }
> 
> and with JSX:
> 
>   function Person2(name, age)
>   {
>     if (!(this instanceof Person2)) return Person2.construct(arguments);
>     
>     this.name = name;
>     this.age = age;
>   }
> 
> See also Function.prototype.construct() and
> Function.prototype.construct2() in
> <http://PointedEars.de/wsvn/JSX/trunk/object.js>.

Du not bother looking for .construct2(); it went the way of the dinosaur 
with r510 last year already :)  The new .construct() does not use eval() 
anymore, and as it was also superior to the .construct2() that Asen Bozhilov 
suggested, I have removed the latter method.

<http://pointedears.de/wsvn/JSX/trunk/object.js?op=diff&rev=510>

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