Subj : Re: Updated API ref
To   : Sterling Bates
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Thu Apr 22 2004 02:43 pm

Sterling Bates wrote:
> 
>   Set <C>proto</C> to <C>NULL</C> to force JS to assign a prototype
>   object for you. In this case, <C>JS_NewObject</C> attempts to assign
>   the new object the prototype object belonging to <C>clasp</C>. If
>   <C>clasp</C> is <C>NULL</C> it creates an empty object stub for the
>   prototype.<P/>

Not true.  If clasp is null, the Object class is used.  That means the 
prototype, if proto is null, of the new object will be Object.prototype.

/be

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