Microsoft® JScript™ new Operator | Language Reference Version 1

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##### Description

> Creates a new object.

##### Syntax

> new constructor[(arguments)]

> The constructor argument calls object's constructor. The parentheses can be omitted if the constructor takes no arguments.

##### Remarks

> The new operator performs the following tasks:
> 1. It creates an object with no members.
> 2. It calls the constructor for that object, passing a pointer to the newly created object as the this pointer.
> The constructor then initializes the object according to the arguments passed to the constructor.

> These are examples of valid uses of the new operator:

> >     my_object = new Object;
> >     my_array = new Array();
> >     my_date = new Date("Jan 5 1996");

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