Subj : Re: ECMAScript standard and new parseInt("100")
To   : mozilla-jseng@mozilla.org
From : waldemar@netscape.com (Waldemar Horwat)
Date : Mon Apr 14 2003 07:50 pm

At 5:43 PM +0200 4/14/03, Igor Bukanov wrote:
>Does ECMAScript standard says anything about calling function 
>properties of the standard objects as constructors? For example, 
>does it specify in any way what should be the result of new 
>parseInt("100"), new "1".valueOf() ?

Remarkably, it does.  These should produce errors, as stated on the 
first page of ECMAScript Edition 3, chapter 15: "None of the built-in 
functions described in this section shall implement the internal 
[[Construct]] method unless otherwise specified ...."

     Waldemar

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