函数语句和函数表达式的处理方式不同。

function blarg(a) {return a;} // statement
bleep = function(b) {return b;} //expression

所有函数语句在代码运行之前都会被解析——JavaScript文件底部的函数将在第一个语句中可用。另一方面，它将无法利用某些动态上下文，例如围绕语句—在解析函数时，with还没有执行。

函数表达式在遇到它们的地方内联执行。在此之前它们是不可用的，但它们可以利用动态上下文。

JavaScript使用了一个简单的对象文字:

var x = { intValue: 5, strValue: "foo" };

这将构造一个完整的对象。

JavaScript使用基于原型的面向对象，并提供了在运行时扩展类型的能力:

String.prototype.doubleLength = function() {
    return this.length * 2;
}

alert("foo".doubleLength());

对象将对不包含它自身的属性的所有访问委托给它的“原型”，另一个对象。这可以用来实现继承，但实际上更强大(即使更麻烦):

/* "Constructor" */
function foo() {
    this.intValue = 5;
}

/* Create the prototype that includes everything
 * common to all objects created be the foo function.
 */
foo.prototype = {
    method: function() {
        alert(this.intValue);
    }
}

var f = new foo();
f.method();

与。

它很少被使用，坦率地说，很少有用……但是，在有限的情况下，它确实有它的用途。

例如:对象字面量对于快速在新对象上设置属性非常方便。但是，如果需要更改现有对象的一半属性，该怎么办呢?

var user = 
{
   fname: 'Rocket', 
   mname: 'Aloysus',
   lname: 'Squirrel', 
   city: 'Fresno', 
   state: 'California'
};

// ...

with (user)
{
   mname = 'J';
   city = 'Frostbite Falls';
   state = 'Minnesota';
}

Alan Storm指出，这可能有点危险:如果用作上下文的对象没有被赋值的属性之一，它将在外部作用域被解析，可能会创建或覆盖一个全局变量。如果你习惯了用默认值或空值未定义的对象编写代码，这是特别危险的:

var user = 
{
   fname: "John",
// mname definition skipped - no middle name
   lname: "Doe"
};

with (user)
{
   mname = "Q"; // creates / modifies global variable "mname"
}

因此，避免使用with语句进行这种赋值可能是一个好主意。

请参见:JavaScript的“with”语句是否有合法用途?

生成器和迭代器(仅适用于Firefox 2+和Safari)。

function fib() {
  var i = 0, j = 1;
  while (true) {
    yield i;
    var t = i;
    i = j;
    j += t;
  }
}

var g = fib();
for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
  document.write(g.next() + "<br>\n");
}

The function containing the yield keyword is a generator. When you call it, its formal parameters are bound to actual arguments, but its body isn't actually evaluated. Instead, a generator-iterator is returned. Each call to the generator-iterator's next() method performs another pass through the iterative algorithm. Each step's value is the value specified by the yield keyword. Think of yield as the generator-iterator version of return, indicating the boundary between each iteration of the algorithm. Each time you call next(), the generator code resumes from the statement following the yield. In normal usage, iterator objects are "invisible"; you won't need to operate on them explicitly, but will instead use JavaScript's for...in and for each...in statements to loop naturally over the keys and/or values of objects.

var objectWithIterator = getObjectSomehow();

for (var i in objectWithIterator)
{
  document.write(objectWithIterator[i] + "<br>\n");
}

let.

与var缺乏块作用域对应的是let，在JavaScript 1.7中引入。

The let statement provides a way to associate values with variables within the scope of a block, without affecting the values of like-named variables outside the block. The let expression lets you establish variables scoped only to a single expression. The let definition defines variables whose scope is constrained to the block in which they're defined. This syntax is very much like the syntax used for var. You can also use let to establish variables that exist only within the context of a for loop.

  function varTest() {
        var x = 31;
    if (true) {
      var x = 71;  // same variable!
      alert(x);  // 71
    }
    alert(x);  // 71
  }

  function letTest() {
    let x = 31;
    if (true) {
      let x = 71;  // different variable
      alert(x);  // 71
    }
    alert(x);  // 31
  }

截至2008年，FireFox 2.0+和Safari 3.x支持JavaScript 1.7。

方法(或函数)可以在不是它们设计使用的类型的对象上调用。这对于在自定义对象上调用本机(快速)方法非常有用。

var listNodes = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
listNodes.sort(function(a, b){ ... });

这段代码崩溃是因为listNodes不是数组

Array.prototype.sort.apply(listNodes, [function(a, b){ ... }]);

这段代码之所以有效，是因为listNodes定义了足够多的类数组属性(length，[]运算符)供sort()使用。