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Expand Up @@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ Printing the object shows the fields and methods with which it is associated:
Person
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The `Person` ggproto object is essentially a template for the class, and we can use to create specific records of individual people (discussed in @sec-ggproto-instances).
The `Person` ggproto object is essentially a template for the class, and we can use it to create specific records of individual people (discussed in @sec-ggproto-instances).
If you are familiar with other object-oriented programming systems you might have been expecting something a little different: often new classes are defined with a dedicated constructor function.
One quirk of ggproto is that `ggproto()` doesn't do this: rather, the class constructor is itself an object.

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