November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
936 pages
68h 43m
English
Function.prototype — the prototype for a class of objects
JavaScript 1.1; JScript 2.0; ECMAScript v1
function.prototype
The
prototype property is used when a function is used
as a constructor. It refers to an object that serves as the prototype
for an entire class of objects. Any object created by the constructor
inherits all properties of the object referred to by the
prototype property.
See Chapter 8 for a full discussion of constructor
functions, the prototype property, and the
definition of classes in JavaScript.
JavaScript 1.1 requires a constructor to be used once before anything can be assigned to its prototype object.