THIS is the clear demonstration that Javascript is closer to ASM than a 3rd generation language. The "language" is poorly designed and is taking a lot of shortcuts. The only reason we are talking about Javascript today is because it lives in every browser - not because it's a great "language".
Just look at what is happening, TypeScript, ECMAScript 6, Dart, Coffeescript - they all try to address the language shortcomings.
Honestly, this language is so poorly design, that it took 4 iterations to get a for() loop done properly. The latest in ES 6 is for(of)..
To me JS should be used just an Assembly code, and actually it's one of the possible paths (asm.js).
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