"Static" properties in javascript. Kinda.
The following gives me the ability to access javascript properties in a static kind of way. Not really, since the object has been instantiated, but at least I don't have to define a specific object, then call its constructor all the time to new it up and get at its properties.
1: // declare globally
2: var Artist = {
3: Fields: {
4: Id: "ID",
5: FullName: "Term",
6: FirstName: "First Name",
7: LastName: "Last Name",
8: Birth: "Date of Birth",
9: Death: "Date of Death"
10: }
11: };
Overview
I like to store DB/Text field names in this way, as they become (pseudo) strongly-typed and the magic strings are stored in one place only, instead of scattered across my code like dandelion seeds.
It can be difficult to work in javascript after C# and other full-featured languages. This is the closest I could come to static properties or a struct. If I weren't scripting in DB/Text, a proprietary closed system, I would be using jQuery or mootools, which put the joy back in joyvascript.
Example
Now I can access field names statically as follows. Look ma, no constructors!
1: function SomeMethod()
2: {
3: var idFieldName = Artist.Fields.Id;
4: }