JavaScript/Reserved words
This page contains a list of reserved words in JavaScript, which cannot be used as names of variables, functions or other objects.
Reserved words used in JavaScriptEdit
Current list of keywords used in JavaScript Version 5.1:[1][2]
(*) new reserved words in ECMAScript5
A few other reserved words used in JavaScript represent literal values:[1]
false | null | true |
Words reserved for JavaScript in the futureEdit
Some words have been reserved according to the ECMAScript specification so that they cannot be used as variable names, although currently, they do not have any functionality. These keywords may or may not be reserved words for some ECMAScript specification, and are grouped according to their condition of being reserved.[3]
Words that are always reservedEdit
await | enum |
Words that are reserved in strict modeEdit
implements | private | static |
interface | protected | |
package | public |
Words that were reserved in ECMAScript standards 1-3Edit
extends | ||
super | ||
class | import | |
const | ||
let | ||
export |
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ a b "ECMA-262 5.1: ECMAScript Language Specification" 2011, Section 7.6.1: Reserved Words, (keywords, the two Boolean literals, the null literal, and future reserved words).
- ↑ "JavaScript Reserved Words". w3schools.com. http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_reserved.asp. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ↑ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Lexical_grammar