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Expand Up @@ -116,9 +116,9 @@ alert(User.prototype.sayHi); // alert(this.name);
alert(Object.getOwnPropertyNames(User.prototype)); // constructor, sayHi
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## Not just a syntax sugar
## Not just a syntactic sugar

Sometimes people say that `class` is a "syntax sugar" (syntax that is designed to make things easier to read, but doesn't introduce anything new), because we could actually declare the same without `class` keyword at all:
Sometimes people say that `class` is a "syntactic sugar" (syntax that is designed to make things easier to read, but doesn't introduce anything new), because we could actually declare the same without `class` keyword at all:

```js run
// rewriting class User in pure functions
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user.sayHi();
```

The result of this definition is about the same. So, there are indeed reasons why `class` can be considered a syntax sugar to define a constructor together with its prototype methods.
The result of this definition is about the same. So, there are indeed reasons why `class` can be considered a syntactic sugar to define a constructor together with its prototype methods.

Still, there are important differences.

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