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JavaScript/Reserved words/new

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The new keyword

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The new keyword is an operator that creates an object without members, calls it's constructor function with itself as the this operator, which initialises the object.

Examples

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  theArray = new Array();
  theDate = new Date("Jan 3 1962");
  theObject = new Object;
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