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    <p>This has everything to do with the <code>new</code> keyword. In JavaScript, <code>new</code> only works with functions (which are a special type of object).</p> <ul> <li><p>If you use <code>new</code> on just about any function, you will get an object back.</p> <pre><code>alert(typeof console.log); // function var dumb = new console.log(); // dumb is an object </code></pre></li> <li><p>The type of object you get back depends on that function's prototype object.</p> <pre><code>alert(typeof console.log.prototype); // object, any new objects created by the new keyword will be of this type. alert(typeof Function.prototype); // function, new objects are functions. alert(typeof new Function()); // function, see? alert(typeof (function(){})); // function, using literal syntax, equivalent </code></pre></li> <li><p>You may have noticed from above that <code>Function</code> itself is a function. In fact, all of the built-in constructors are functions (Function, Object, Number, Array, etc). Capitalization is just a convention to distinguish how you use a function.</p></li> </ul> <p>So to get back to your question, the author uses an empty Function object simply because it can be used as a constructor. Objects cannot. He then changes the constructor's prototype, so that it will return objects of that type.</p> <pre><code>Object.beget = function(o) { var F = new Function(); // now F can be used as a constructor. F.prototype = o; // All new objects F creates will be based on o. return new F(); }; </code></pre>
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