Microsoft Word - overview.docProposed ECMAScript 4th Edition – Language Overview Revised 23 October 2007 The fourth edition of the ECMAScript language (ES4) represents a significant evolution of the third edition language (ES3), which Ecma approved as the standard ECMA-262 in 1999. ES4 is compatible with ES3 and adds important facilities for programming in the large (classes, interfaces, namespaces, packages, program units,
