Symbol() constructor — new Symbol()
The following syntax with the {{jsxref("new")}} operator will throw a {{jsxref("TypeError")}} This prevents authors from creating an explicit Symbol wrapper object instead of a new symbol value and might be surprising as creating explicit wrapper objects around primitive data types is generally poss
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The following syntax with the {{jsxref("new")}} operator will throw a {{jsxref("TypeError")}}
This prevents authors from creating an explicit Symbol wrapper object instead of a new symbol value and might be surprising as creating explicit wrapper objects around primitive data types is generally possible (for example, new Boolean, new String and new Number).
If you really want to create a Symbol wrapper object, you can use the Object() function
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