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This reminds me of a javascript weirdness I found. When passed as `this`, primitives (string, number, boolean) get wrapped in their classes.

You can get the 'Number' function with:

    Number = (function(){return this;}).call(1).constructor

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nice trick. You can, but you can't reference `Number` directly, that's the point. `Number` is a part of standard library, so being in JS it's possible use hack that you've shown. But you won't find a reference to let's say `console`, because it's not a part of ECMAScript.

or just `1..constructor` -> function Number().

> or just `1..constructor` -> function Number().

Ah ha. much simpler :)

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