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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Javascript classes. Please take a look at my question.
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 01:31:07 +0200
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Christoph M. Becker wrote:

> Denis McMahon wrote:
>> I haven't tested the following code, but it might return a result object
>> that either contains the results you want, garbage, or a single error
>> attribute.
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> Sorry it's not a class object, but I've never really grokked the whole
>> emulate OOP with javascript using functions as classes thing[1].
> 
> It appears that the function can be used as constructor function

No, it cannot.  It is syntactically invalid to begin with.

> and called with `new election([...])`, so all is well. ;)

It is a fundamental misconception that OOP requires classes.  You do _not_ 
emulate OOP using functions as constructors in most ECMAScript 
implementations; you *do* OOP, just a special kind of prototype-based OOP.
 
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