Object-Oriented JavaScript - Second Edition

Appendix A. Reserved Words

This appendix provides two lists of reserved keywords as defined in ECMAScript 5 (ES5). The first one is the current list of words, and the second is the list of words reserved for future implementations.

There's also a list of words that are no longer reserved, although they used to be in ES3.

You cannot use reserved words as variable names:

var break = 1; // syntax error

If you use these words as object properties, you have to quote them:

var o = {break: 1};   // OK in many browsers, error in IE
var o = {"break": 1}; // Always OK
alert(o.break);       // error in IE
alert(o["break"]);    // OK

Keywords

The list of words currently reserved in ES5 is as follows:

break

case

catch

continue

debugger

default

delete

do

else ...