Right off the bat, I should say I don’t expect this project to be used in any real-world applications, as the amount of overhead is substantial and performance could suffer, so use at your own risk. Instead, this project is about demonstrating the versatility of JavaScript; it is common practice these days to build on top of the language and extend upon its native capabilities due to a lack of support for various functions and implementations found in other languages. This has lead to many of the countless hacks and extensions found in most modern day libraries, such as inheritance, native object extensions (Array), dynamic script injection, animation, and CSS selector engines to name a few. Now you can add one more to the list; class type and invariant declaration and validation. read more »

Scope or context as it is often referred to as is one of the fundamental aspects of Javascript, playing a significant role unlike that of any other language. Scope refers to the accessibility of variables and its execution context which belongs to the object or function in which it was defined. However this does not always hold true as scope can be lost or changed depending on how and where it used, specifically as it applies to functional execution. read more »