The essence of javascript

  • Authors:
  • Arjun Guha;Claudiu Saftoiu;Shriram Krishnamurthi

  • Affiliations:
  • Brown University;Brown University;Brown University

  • Venue:
  • ECOOP'10 Proceedings of the 24th European conference on Object-oriented programming
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We reduce JavaScript to a core calculus structured as a small-step operational semantics. We present several peculiarities of the language and show that our calculus models them. We explicate the desugaring process that turns JavaScript programs into ones in the core. We demonstrate faithfulness to JavaScript using real-world test suites. Finally, we illustrate utility by defining a security property, implementing it as a type system on the core, and extending it to the full language.