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Javascript: The Good Parts is a great book. Often I find myself reading passages like the following from the perspective of a language designer: undefined and NaN are not constants. They are global variables, and you can change their values. This should not be possible, and yet it is. Don't do it. Takeaways: Don't change the value of undefined in my Javascript code. When designing a language, make its equivalent of undefined immutable. A different more subtle example would be " for in shouldn't enumerate over prototype properties". I want a book at talks about these issues of language design outside of the context of a particular language. If you were trying to design the "perfect" OO language, what books would you read for guidance?
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