In my previous blog post on the subject of constructor functions, I mentioned that there is a convention in JavaScript to name constructor functions with an initial capital letter and ordinary functions with an initial lowercase letter. This way, since the language doesn’t stop you from using a constructor as an ordinary function, there is at least some kind of “warning” that you may be using a constructor and therefore need to use new. […]
Elijah Manor tweeted a link today for learnjs, a reader-supported site that provides tutorial videos on writing JavaScript. A pretty good resource to have to be sure, but there was one video there that brought me up short. […]
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