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Description

Creates a new object.

Syntax

new constructor

The constructor argument is a call to the object's constructor. The parentheses for the function call can be omitted if the constructor takes no arguments.

Remarks

The new statement 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.
3. It initializes the object according to the arguments passed to the constructor.

These are all examples of valid uses of the new statement:

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