Subj : Re: Preventing 'new'
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Fri Mar 25 2005 03:14 pm

Jamie Nordmeyer wrote:

> However, now that I"m thinking about it, I suppose something like 'var x =
> new RegistryKey(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "\\Software", REG_CREATE | REG_OPEN);'
> could work.


That's much more in the normal style of the language and its host 
objects.  Sometimes you want a restricted pattern because what is going 
on is not necessarily construction (e.g., window.open, which may find an 
existing window).  Here, you're always creating or re-creating the key, 
I take it, so new fits better.

/be

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