Implementing Private Variables In JavaScript

JavaScript (or ECMAScript) is the programming language that powers the web. Created in May 1995 by Brendan Eich, its found its place as a widely-used and versatile technology. Despite its success, its been met with its fair share of criticism, especially for idiosyncrasies. Things like objects being casted to string form when used as indices, 1 == "1" returning true, or the notoriously confusing this keyword. A particularly interesting quirk though, is the existence of various techniques for variable privacy.… Read article

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