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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: Object.defineProperties
Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 20:59:56 +0200
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Cezary Tomczyk wrote:

> On 05/05/2017 18:14, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> typeof function () {} === "function", so that is not OK in theory;
>> however, one might decide that it is not OK to modify function objects.
> 
> Functions are objects so they can be extended like any other objects.

I am not sure that is the reason.  ISTM that most importantly, them being 
objects allows for references to them to be assigned and passed.  The latter 
would be useful for an event-driven application.

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