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Some say you should never use the new operator in your JavaScript. I use it when I want to create a family of objects all varying in their data properties’ values. That is just what OOP languages do. We think the huge success of C++, Java, and other OOP languages tells you that this paradigm commonly matches at least some of the realities our programs model.

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Rinehart, M. (2015). On Constructors. In: JavaScript Object Programming. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1787-0_9

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