Question

I am planning to implement class inherit interface using JavaScript. class is the perfect word as the name of the constructor.

class = function (classname) {}; // create a class with classname
classA = new class("classA"); // create a class named classA

Unfortunately, class is a reserved word in JavaScript.

Why does JavaScript reserve the word class (since it never uses it)?

Answer 1

It’s reserved to future-proof ECMAScript

The following words are used as keywords in proposed extensions and are therefore reserved to allow for the possibility of future adoption of those extensions.

Don’t fret though, if you’re using best-practices in your JavaScripts, you’re placing all accessible functions/variables/constructors in a namespace, which will allow you to use whatever name you’d like:

foo = {};
foo['class'] = function(){...code...};
var myClass = new foo['class']();