Is explicit ".prototype" really needed?
javascript
Solution
Yes, fully equivalent.
It happens to be that the access via `.prototype` is slightly faster because no new object instance needs to get created. However, thats what we call microoptimization.
A nice way to get entirely rid of deep chaining, is to invoke `Function.prototype.bind`.
Example
(function( slice ) {
slice( whatever, 1 );
}( Function.prototype.call.bind( Array.prototype.slice )));
Problem
I often see something like this in other people's scripts: ``` bar = Array.prototype.slice.call(whatever, 1) ``` However, the following shorter notation works fine as well: ``` bar = [].slice.call(whatever, 1) ``` Are these two constructs fully equivalent? Are there engines (browsers) that treat them differently?