ECMA-262 states that a constructor is an object that supports the [[Construct]] internal method. I suspect that BigInt and Symbol support [[Construct]] because they are included in Constructor Properties of the Global Object . However, both return a TypeError when called with the new operator: try {…

Constructor definition

bergus February 11, 2024, 4:08am 3

The .prototype is not unnecessary, it is used to supply the methods and getters on BigInt and Symbol objects.

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