What is the 'new' keyword in JavaScript?

answer re: What is the 'new' keyword in JavaScript?

Sep 7 '10

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It does 5 things:

1. It creates a new object. The type of this object is simply object.
2. It sets this new object's internal, inaccessible, [[prototype]] (i.e. __proto__) property to be the constructor function's external, accessible, prototype object (every function object automatically has a prototype property).
3. It makes the…

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