Can we omit parentheses when creating an object using the “new” operator?

Question

I have seen objects being created this way:

const obj = new Foo;

But I thought that the parentheses are not optional when creating an objec

Answer 1

I don't think there is any difference when you are using the "new" operator. Be careful about getting into this habit, as these two lines of code are NOT the same:

var someVar = myFunc; // this assigns the function myFunc to someVar
var someOtherVar = myFunc(); // this executes myFunc and assigns the returned value to someOtherVar