Why does this property assignment overwrite the prior property in JavaScript?

var foo = new Object(); var bar = new Object(); var map = new Object(); map[foo] = "foo"; map[bar] = "bar"; alert(map[foo]); //This alerts bar, but what happens to foo? This is one of those questions to help with your understanding of how keys are assigned in JS. Of course, I immediately tried the following: […]

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