Like any good programmer, I’d like to stay on top of any changes planned for programming languages that I use (or scripting languages).  So when I heard about EcmaScript 5th Edition (near final draft) being released, I wanted to get all of the juicy details on what to expect.  As it turns out, this hasn’t been documented really well yet: so I did the better thing and read the draft.

There are some really exciting things to come, some of the biggest being to the foundation Object object’s functions which will allow turning off Enumeration on properties, making “read only” properties, etc. I’ve noticed a lot of this has come from Mozilla’s innovation and also I see some similarities to PrototypeJS’s changes.

• JSON object
• Object object
• Function object
• Array object
• String, Number, Boolean, Date
• Miscellaneous

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