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Posted April 25, 2019 4:48am by

New Operator

Can someone explain the New operator? I find it very confusing. The teacher uses it but she hasnt explained what it does.

1 Answer

April 25, 2019 10:43am

The "new" operator is for creating an object. It makes an empty generic object and passes it to the constructor function (which you will place right after it). The constructor function can then reference the object being constructed by using the keyword "this".

For more details, see the MDN page on "new".

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