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#7 = > Either the constructor is the class / prototype object, or the class / prototype object needs to be a field on the constructor

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  1. One who constructs or makes; specifically, a builder. A constructor of dials. Johnson, Rambler, No. 103. Social courage is exactly the virtue in which the constructure of a government will always think themselves least able to indulge. J. Morley, Burke, p. 140. At present no question is exciting more attention among our constructors than that of the strength of materials. Science, III. 312.
  2. One who constructs or interprets. Seeing no power but death can stop the chat of ill tongues, nor imagination of mens minds, lest my owne relations of those hard euents might by some constructors bee made doubtfull, I haue thought it best to insert the examinations of those proceedings. Capt. John Smith, True Travels, II. 208.
  3. Sometimes written constructer.
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  • Bantam Books is publishing a series of murder mysteries by Parnell Hall in which a female crossword constructor is a main character, with some of the clues in crossword Martin Arnold, "Making Books," The New York Times, February 8, 2001. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 04-05 - October-November 2002
  • You seem to be returning from a constructor, which is meaningless. —  GameDev.Net
  • His outstanding career as a constructor was marked by work on the Porto viaduct over the river Douro in 1876, the Garabit viaduct in 1884, Pest railway station in Hungary, the dome of the Nice observatory, and the ingenious structure of the Statue of Liberty. —  Art Knowledge News
  • #7 = > Either the constructor is the class / prototype object, or the class / prototype object needs to be a field on the constructor —  Planet Haskell
  • #6 = > If the constructor is the class / prototype object, then all objects will end up inheriting function fields & methods by accident. —  Planet Haskell
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  1. = French constructeur (later D. konstrukteur = Danish konstruktör = Spanish Pg, constructor = Italian costruttore, later Middle Latin constructor, from Latin construere, past participle constructus, build, construct: see construct, v.
 

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