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Re: Calling constructor function with or without new

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Joao Rodrigues wrote:

> On 09/06/2015 10:05, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Joao Rodrigues wrote:
>>> On 07/06/15 14:46, Martin Honnen wrote:
>>>> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>> As you use Rhino which I think did never get updated to implement
>>>> ECMAScript 5 you might want to download
>>>> http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST-ARCH/ECMA-262,%203rd%20edition,%20December%201999.pdf
>>>> […]
>>>
>>> One can read the online version at:
>>> <http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-15.7.1>
>>> <http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-9.3>
>> 
>> No, those are the *non-normative* versions of the *5.1* Edition.
> 
> ACK the wrong edition (5.1 instead of the 3rd edition), but not the
> "non-normative".

Wrong.

> One can read the preamble of the HTML version [1]

Why don’t you?

> which states the following:
> 
> | 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.

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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
                Re: Calling constructor function with or without new "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2015-06-11 20:40 -0700

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