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Re: Differences between [[Class]] and constructor

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Stefan Ram schrieb:
>    I have observed that the class ([[Class]]) name and the
>    constructor name of an object often is the same!

This might be the case for plain objects with the native constructors.
It is not for almost every other object, like

     var p = new (function Person(){});
     className(p) // "object"
     p.constructor // Person

>    The first difference I found is: You can change the
>    constructor name, but not the class name.

Not exactly. You cannot change constructor names either, as the `.name` 
property of functions is typically non-writable (if it exists at all, it 
is non-standard, as opposed to [[Class]]). See 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Function/name 
for more information.

What you can arbitrarily change is the `.constructor` property of any 
normal object, there are no limitiations here.

  Bergi

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Re: Differences between [[Class]] and constructor Andreas Bergmaier <andber93@web.de> - 2015-06-02 21:32 +0200
  Re: Differences between [[Class]] and constructor Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-06-02 23:05 +0200

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