... VerbalExpression() syntax in ES6 classes as mandated by the spec. You usually wouldn’t need to call VerEx().constructor(). This method will not be accessible from outside the source file since VerEx() returns an instance of the class rather than the class itself. sanitize is a static method on the VerbalExpression class. However, it is also exposed as VerEx().sanitize. Enabling control multi-line matching would cause the expression to not look for matches beyond the first line.