Why do two regex literals in my Javascript vary on a property?

Question

I read in Javascript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford that javascript regular expression literals share the same object. If so, then how come these two regex li

Answer 1

Because they are different objects.

document.write(a === b);

Even this outputs false.

Either Crockford was wrong, or he was right at the time but times have changed.

I realize this isn't a particularly helpful or informative answer; I'm just pushing back on what I perceive as your disbelief that something Crockford wrote could be (now) false.

Do you have a reference to that claim, by the way? Would be interesting to read it in context (I don't have the book).