1286628 - Object.prototype.constructor is not a reference to the constructor of the prototype

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: JavaScript, defect)

Description

[jonathan.bouzekri]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.106 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I am wondering if there is a bug in the JS documentation about Object.prototype.constructor : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/constructor

It says "Returns a reference to the Object function that created the instance's prototype.". But to me It should be : "Returns a reference to the Object function that created the instance".

If you create a function constructor :

function User(name) {
    this.name = name
}

and an instance of this class :

var u = new User('toto');




Actual results:

Indeed, the property constructor is available in the prototype and point to the function constructor User.

However the prototype is an instance of Object as we did not set a custom prototype in our function constructor.

To me it is not the function which has created the prototype. It is the function which has create the instance stored in the variable "u".




Expected results:

The documentation should be changed to "Returns a reference to the Object function that created the instance".

I just want to know if it is okay if I make this change in the documentation as I am not sure it is the right thing to do.

Comment 1

[Janet Swisher]

This appears to be fixed.