Question

OK, I really have read everything I can find trying to get a comprehensive understanding of Javascript. I know this can be done using a constructor function, but I’m trying to understand the language enough to know why this happens…

PeepClass = { color: "Yellow", shape: "Chick" };

var peepsA = new Object(PeepClass);
var peepsB = new Object(PeepClass);

if ( peepsA == peepsB )
  document.write( "Why wouldn't these be unique instances?" );

Why doesn’t new Object(PeepClass) create unique instances of the PeepClass object? Instead, it results in three references to the same object.

Answer 1

I guess you want this:

var peepsA = Object.create( PeepClass );

Now peepsA is a new object which inherits from the object PeepClass.

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Btw when you pass an object into new Object(), that same object is returned, ergo, the operation is a no-op.

PeepClass === new Object( PeepClass )

which means that the notation new Object( obj ) is meaningless.