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JavaScript parasitic inheritance, power constructors and instanceof.

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Abstract. This posting shows how one can make Crockford's power constructor functions play nicely with the JavaScript keyword 'instanceof.' [update: March 18, 2008. I asked Crockford what he thinks about this pattern, and he actually discourages the use of 'instanceof' -- instead, he prefers to "... rely instead on good design ...