javascript singleton question

Question

I just read a few threads on the discussion of singleton design in javascript. I\'m 100% new to the Design Pattern stuff but as I see since a Singleton by definition won\'t

Answer 1

I've wondered about this too, but just defining an object with functions in it seems reasonable to me. No sense creating a constructor that nobody's ever supposed to call, to create an object with no prototype, when you can just define the object directly.

On the other hand, if you want your singleton to be an instance of some existing "class" -- that is, you want it to have some other object as its prototype -- then you do need to use a constructor function, so that you can set its prototype property before calling it.