Confusing JavaScript statement: “var x = new this();”

Question

I thought I understood the concept of the JavaScript prototype object, as well as [[proto]] until I saw a few posts regarding class inheritance.

Firstly, \"JavaScript OO

Answer 1

see this link http://www.quirksmode.org/js/this.html It will tell you about the this keyword, but I am not sure what this() is, may be its some kind of user defined function...... that you are not aware of...