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  Re: Style: new String( "abc" ) Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2015-06-03 10:15 +0200

#27975 — Re: Style: new String( "abc" )

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:
>    IIRC, I read somewhere that one should prefer to use
>    primitives such as "abc"; one should not create objects
>    via »new String ( "abc )« (or, »new Number( 7 )«).
>
>    I am not sure why »new String( "abc" )« should be bad style.


Well with

   var s1 = new String("foo"); var s2 = new String("foo"); s1 == s2

you get "false" while with

   var s1 = "foo"; var s2 = "foo"; s1 == s2

you get "true" so it is not necessarily a question of style but of 
semantics you would want to have when using your data in expressions.


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