I am C# developer, hence I use C# properties a lot. However I just recently discovered that Javascript has properties as well. Get and Set operators supported by Firefox 2.0+, Safari 3.0+, Chrome, Opera 9.5+. However IE still doesn't support properties. May be Microsoft would introduce support in IE10, but so far no luck. Here is a little example of Get and Set declaration:

var obj = {

   get CustomProperty() {

     return 0;

   },

   set CustomProperty(s) {

     alert ("It is readonly.");

   }

};

Properties can be useful and scary at the same time. A simple variable assignment is not predictable anymore. For example with a little bit of work you can convert your AJAX calls to something like this:

ajax.url = "script.php";

alert(ajax.result);