http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-26T05:25:53 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/specs/actionscript/3/as3_specification10.html#45796 It is not necessarily a best practice to omit the parentheses when using the new operator, but it is legal to do so. Tthis is also true in previous versions of ActionScript and in the ECMAScript standard. Francis Cheng 1 1 2006-03-06T14:41:30 http://livedocs.adobe.com/specs/actionscript/3/as3_specification10.html#45695 Code example<br />var greeter : Greeter = new Greeter<br />calls constructor without (). Is it best practice and why? Or maybe there is an error in example? Constantiner 0 0 2006-03-02T11:42:31