你可以使用in操作符检查对象中是否存在键:

var x = 1;
var y = 3;
var list = {0:0, 1:0, 2:0};
x in list; //true
y in list; //false
1 in list; //true
y in {3:0, 4:0, 5:0}; //true

如果你觉得对象文字太丑，你可以将它与无参数函数提示结合起来:

function list()
 { var x = {};
   for(var i=0; i < arguments.length; ++i) x[arguments[i]] = 0;
   return x
 }

 5 in list(1,2,3,4,5) //true

名称空间

在较大的JavaScript应用程序或框架中，在名称空间中组织代码可能很有用。JavaScript没有内置模块或名称空间概念，但使用JavaScript对象很容易模拟。这将创建一个名为n的命名空间，并将函数foo附加到它上面。

if (!window.ns) {
  window.ns = {};
}

window.ns.foo = function() {};

通常在整个项目中使用相同的全局名称空间前缀，并为每个JavaScript文件使用子名称空间。子名称空间的名称通常与文件名匹配。

一个叫做ns/button的文件头。应该是这样的:

if (!window.ns) {
  window.ns = {};
}
if (!window.ns.button) {
  window.ns.button = {};
}

// attach methods to the ns.button namespace
window.ns.button.create = function() {};

函数在JavaScript中是第一类公民:

var passFunAndApply = function (fn,x,y,z) { return fn(x,y,z); };

var sum = function(x,y,z) {
  return x+y+z;
};

alert( passFunAndApply(sum,3,4,5) ); // 12

函数式编程技术可以用来编写优雅的javascript。

特别是，函数可以作为参数传递，例如Array.filter()接受回调:

[1, 2, -1].filter(function(element, index, array) { return element > 0 });
// -> [1,2]

你也可以声明一个“private”函数，它只存在于特定函数的作用域中:

function PrintName() {
    var privateFunction = function() { return "Steve"; };
    return privateFunction();
}

大多数时候可以使用对象而不是开关。

function getInnerText(o){
    return o === null? null : {
        string: o,
        array: o.map(getInnerText).join(""),
        object:getInnerText(o["childNodes"])
    }[typeis(o)];
}

更新:如果你担心提前评估的情况是低效的(为什么你在程序设计的早期就担心效率??)，那么你可以这样做:

function getInnerText(o){
    return o === null? null : {
        string: function() { return o;},
        array: function() { return o.map(getInnerText).join(""); },
        object: function () { return getInnerText(o["childNodes"]; ) }
    }[typeis(o)]();
}

这比输入(或读取)开关或对象更麻烦，但它保留了使用对象而不是开关的好处，详情见下面的评论部分。这种风格还使它在足够成熟后更直接地旋转成一个适当的“类”。

update2:带有ES的建议语法扩展。接下来，这变成了

let getInnerText = o -> ({
    string: o -> o,
    array: o -> o.map(getInnerText).join(""),
    object: o -> getInnerText(o["childNodes"])
}[ typeis o ] || (->null) )(o);

下面是一些有趣的事情:

Comparing NaN with anything (even NaN) is always false, that includes ==, < and >. NaN Stands for Not a Number but if you ask for the type it actually returns a number. Array.sort can take a comparator function and is called by a quicksort-like driver (depends on implementation). Regular expression "constants" can maintain state, like the last thing they matched. Some versions of JavaScript allow you to access $0, $1, $2 members on a regex. null is unlike anything else. It is neither an object, a boolean, a number, a string, nor undefined. It's a bit like an "alternate" undefined. (Note: typeof null == "object") In the outermost context, this yields the otherwise unnameable [Global] object. Declaring a variable with var, instead of just relying on automatic declaration of the variable gives the runtime a real chance of optimizing access to that variable The with construct will destroy such optimzations Variable names can contain Unicode characters. JavaScript regular expressions are not actually regular. They are based on Perl's regexs, and it is possible to construct expressions with lookaheads that take a very, very long time to evaluate. Blocks can be labeled and used as the targets of break. Loops can be labeled and used as the target of continue. Arrays are not sparse. Setting the 1000th element of an otherwise empty array should fill it with undefined. (depends on implementation) if (new Boolean(false)) {...} will execute the {...} block Javascript's regular expression engine's are implementation specific: e.g. it is possible to write "non-portable" regular expressions.

[更新了一点，以回应良好的评论;请参阅评论]

JavaScript没有块作用域(但它有闭包，所以让我们称它为偶数?)

var x = 1;
{
   var x = 2;
}
alert(x); // outputs 2