[kls]

I made that point in another thread as well, if you stick to the meat and gravy of JavaScript you just don't hit on these nuances of the languadge. I am generally not a fan of clever programming tricks or "magic code" and if you are then JavaScript becomes a tempest, but if you are using it to glue interfaces together, build some widgets and manage events you just don't get into the ugly side of JavaScript, it's not my favorite languadge but it get's the job done and it is efficient as far as development effort goes.