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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: }

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