Hi,

I have a simple code fragment in JS working with prototype inheritance.

function object(o) {
    function F() {}
    F.prototype = o;
    return new F();
}
 //the following code block has a alternate version
 var mammal={
color: "brown",
getColor: function(){
    return this.color;
    }
}
var myCat = object(mammal);
myCat.meow = function(){return "meow";}

that worked fine but adding this:

mammal.prototype.kindOf = "predator";

does not. ("mammal.prototype is undefined")

Since I guessed that object maybe have no prototype I rewrote it, replacing the var mammal={... block with:

function mammal(){
this.color="brown";
this.getColor = function(){return this.color;}
}

which gave me a bunch of other errors:

"Function.prototype.toString called on incompatible object"
and if I try to call _myCat.getColor()
"myCat.getColor is not a function"

Now I am totally confused. After reading Crockford, and Flanagan I did not get the solution for the errors. So it would be great if somebody knows...

- why is the prototype undefined in the first example (which is foremost concern; I thought the prototype of explicitly set in the object() function)

- why get I these strange errors trying to use the mammal function as prototype object in the object() function?