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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition

by David Flanagan

August 2006

Intermediate to advanced

1018 pages

34h 13m

English

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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What’s New in the Fifth EditionUsing This BookConventions Used in This BookUsing Code ExamplesSafari® EnabledHow to Contact UsAcknowledgments
1.1. What Is JavaScript?1.1.1. JavaScript Is Not Java1.1.2. JavaScript Is Not Simple1.2. Versions of JavaScript1.3. Client-Side JavaScript1.3.1. Client-Side JavaScript Examples1.4. JavaScript in Other Contexts1.5. Exploring JavaScript
2.1. Character Set2.2. Case Sensitivity2.3. Whitespace and Line Breaks2.4. Optional Semicolons2.5. Comments2.6. Literals2.7. Identifiers2.8. Reserved Words
3.1. Numbers3.1.1. Integer Literals3.1.2. Hexadecimal and Octal Literals3.1.3. Floating-Point Literals3.1.4. Working with Numbers3.1.5. Numeric Conversions3.1.6. Special Numeric Values3.2. Strings3.2.1. String Literals3.2.2. Escape Sequences in String Literals3.2.3. Working with Strings3.2.4. Converting Numbers to Strings3.2.5. Converting Strings to Numbers3.3. Boolean Values3.3.1. Boolean Type Conversions3.4. Functions3.4.1. Function Literals3.5. Objects3.5.1. Creating Objects3.5.2. Object Literals3.5.3. Object Conversions3.6. Arrays3.6.1. Creating Arrays3.6.2. Array Literals3.7. null3.8. undefined3.9. The Date Object3.10. Regular Expressions3.11. Error Objects3.12. Type Conversion Summary3.13. Primitive Datatype Wrapper Objects3.14. Object-to-Primitive Conversion3.15. By Value Versus by Reference3.15.1. Primitive Types and Reference Types3.15.2. Copying and Passing Strings3.15.3. Comparing Strings3.15.4. By Value Versus by Reference: Summary
4.1. Variable Typing4.2. Variable Declaration4.2.1. Repeated and Omitted Declarations4.3. Variable Scope4.3.1. No Block Scope4.3.2. Undefined Versus Unassigned4.4. Primitive Types and Reference Types4.5. Garbage Collection4.6. Variables as Properties4.6.1. The Global Object4.6.2. Local Variables: The Call Object4.6.3. JavaScript Execution Contexts4.7. Variable Scope Revisited
5.1. Expressions5.2. Operator Overview5.2.1. Number of Operands5.2.2. Type of Operands5.2.3. Operator Precedence5.2.4. Operator Associativity5.3. Arithmetic Operators5.4. Equality Operators5.4.1. Equality (==) and Identity (===)5.4.2. Inequality (!=) and Nonidentity (!==)5.5. Relational Operators5.5.1. Comparison Operators5.5.2. The in Operator5.5.3. The instanceof Operator5.6. String Operators5.7. Logical Operators5.7.1. Logical AND (&&)5.7.2. Logical OR (||)5.7.3. Logical NOT (!)5.8. Bitwise Operators5.9. Assignment Operators5.9.1. Assignment with Operation5.10. Miscellaneous Operators5.10.1. The Conditional Operator (?:)5.10.2. The typeof Operator5.10.3. The Object-Creation Operator (new)5.10.4. The delete Operator5.10.5. The void Operator5.10.6. The Comma Operator (,)5.10.7. Array and Object Access Operators5.10.8. The Function Call Operator
6.1. Expression Statements6.2. Compound Statements6.3. if6.4. else if6.5. switch6.6. while6.7. do/while6.8. for6.9. for/in6.10. Labels6.11. break6.12. continue6.13. var6.14. function6.15. return6.16. throw6.17. try/catch/finally6.18. with6.19. The Empty Statement6.20. Summary of JavaScript Statements

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