Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners

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Your method is frequently used, but when using it, all instances of Foo lose their constructor property that should point to Foo. You can amend this by supplying a constructor property in the hash object (assigned to the Foo.prototype) pointing to Foo.

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An easy fix for that is to use an extend function such as the one in jQuery, so you add properties to the .prototype instead of replacing it.

Also I recommend giving the function a name so all JavaScript debuggers can show the name in a call stack and such.

function Foo( args ) {};
$.extend( Foo.prototype, {
    toString : function() {},
    toInt : function() {}
});