正如Marius已经指出的，可以在函数中使用公共静态变量。

我通常使用它们来创建只执行一次的函数，或者缓存一些复杂的计算结果。

下面是我以前的“单例”方法的例子:

var singleton = function(){ 

  if (typeof arguments.callee.__instance__ == 'undefined') { 

    arguments.callee.__instance__ = new function(){

      //this creates a random private variable.
      //this could be a complicated calculation or DOM traversing that takes long
      //or anything that needs to be "cached"
      var rnd = Math.random();

      //just a "public" function showing the private variable value
      this.smth = function(){ alert('it is an object with a rand num=' + rnd); };

   };

  }

  return arguments.callee.__instance__;

};


var a = new singleton;
var b = new singleton;

a.smth(); 
b.smth();

如您所见，在这两种情况下构造函数都只运行一次。

For example, I used this approach back in 2004 when I had to create a modal dialog box with a gray background that covered the whole page (something like Lightbox). Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6 have the highest stacking context for <select> or <iframe> elements due to their "windowed" nature; so if the page contained select elements, the only way to cover them was to create an iframe and position it "on top" of the page. So the whole script was quite complex and a little bit slow (it used filter: expressions to set opacity for the covering iframe). The "shim" script had only one ".show()" method, which created the shim only once and cached it in the static variable :)

我提交的第一个特性与其说是一个隐藏特性，不如说是一个很少使用的属性重定义特性应用程序。因为可以重新定义对象的方法，所以可以缓存方法调用的结果，这在计算开销很大且希望延迟求值的情况下非常有用。这是记忆的最简单形式。

function Circle(r) {
    this.setR(r);
}

Circle.prototype = {
  recalcArea: function() {
        this.area=function() {
            area = this.r * this.r * Math.PI;
            this.area = function() {return area;}
            return area;
        }
    },
  setR: function (r) {
      this.r = r;
      this.invalidateR();
    },
  invalidateR: function() {
        this.recalcArea();
    }
}

重构将结果缓存到方法中的代码，你会得到:

Object.prototype.cacheResult = function(name, _get) {
  this[name] = function() {
    var result = _get.apply(this, arguments);
    this[name] = function() {
      return result;
    }
    return result;
  };
};

function Circle(r) {
    this.setR(r);
}

Circle.prototype = {
  recalcArea: function() {
        this.cacheResult('area', function() { return this.r * this.r * Math.PI; });
    },
  setR: function (r) {
      this.r = r;
      this.invalidateR();
    },
  invalidateR: function() {
        this.recalcArea();
    }
}

如果你想要一个记忆函数，你可以用那个代替。不涉及属性重定义。

Object.prototype.memoize = function(name, implementation) {
    this[name] = function() {
        var argStr = Array.toString.call(arguments);
        if (typeof(this[name].memo[argStr]) == 'undefined') {
            this[name].memo[argStr] = implementation.apply(this, arguments);
        }
        return this[name].memo[argStr];
    }
};

注意，这依赖于标准数组toString转换，通常不能正常工作。解决这个问题留给读者练习。

第二个提交的是getter和setter。我很惊讶他们还没有被提及。因为官方标准不同于事实上的标准(defineProperty vs. define[GS]字母)，而且Internet Explorer几乎不支持官方标准，所以它们通常没什么用。也许这就是他们没有被提及的原因。注意，你可以很好地结合getter和结果缓存:

Object.prototype.defineCacher = function(name, _get) {
    this.__defineGetter__(name, function() {
        var result = _get.call(this);
        this.__defineGetter__(name, function() { return result; });
        return result;
    })
};

function Circle(r) {
    this.r = r;
}

Circle.prototype = {
  invalidateR: function() {
        this.recalcArea();
    },
  recalcArea: function() {
        this.defineCacher('area', function() {return this.r * this.r * Math.PI; });
    },
  get r() { return this._r; }
  set r(r) { this._r = r; this.invalidateR(); }
}

var unit = new Circle(1);
unit.area;

有效地组合getter, setter和结果缓存有点混乱，因为你必须防止在set上自动失效或不自动失效，这就是下面的例子所做的。如果改变一个属性会使其他多个属性失效，这是一个主要的问题(假设在这些示例中有一个“diameter”属性)。

Object.prototype.defineRecalcer = function(name, _get) {
  var recalcFunc;
  this[recalcFunc='recalc'+name.toCapitalized()] = function() {
    this.defineCacher(name, _get);
  };
  this[recalcFunc]();
  this.__defineSetter__(name, function(value) {
      _set.call(this, value);
      this.__defineGetter__(name, function() {return value; });
  });
};

function Circle(r) {
    this.defineRecalcer('area',
             function() {return this.r * this.r * Math.PI;},
             function(area) {this._r = Math.sqrt(area / Math.PI);},
    );
    this.r = r;
}

Circle.prototype = {
  invalidateR: function() {
        this.recalcArea();
    },
  get r() { return this._r; }
  set r(r) { this._r = r; this.invalidateR(); }
}

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();
}

JavaScript使用Date()的方式让我很兴奋!

function isLeapYear(year) {
    return (new Date(year, 1, 29, 0, 0).getMonth() != 2);
}

这是真正的“隐藏特性”。

编辑:删除了评论中建议的“?”条件。 是:……new Date(year, 1,29,0,0).getMonth() != 2 ?真:假…… 详情请看评论。

要正确地从对象中删除一个属性，你应该删除该属性，而不是仅仅将其设置为undefined:

var obj = { prop1: 42, prop2: 43 };

obj.prop2 = undefined;

for (var key in obj) {
    ...

prop2属性仍然是迭代的一部分。如果你想完全摆脱prop2，你应该这样做:

delete obj.prop2;

在遍历属性时，prop2属性将不再出现。

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。