Javascript book recommendation needed

[Claes Jakobsson]

On 15 maj 2008, at 23.13, David Cantrell wrote:
> My god, my Javascript SUCKS.  I've not done any serious Javascript
> programming for ten years and I've forgotten *everything*.  So I  
> need a
> book.  Can anyone recommend one, suitable for an experienced  
> programmer
> who just doesn't know this particular language, and which talks about
> data structures and the language itself (bonus points for covering
> closures) and spends only minimal time talking about web shit?

Core javascript 1.5 to 1.8:

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/JavaScript

and covers closures, generators, iterators, objects, E4X, scoping etc.

There are also links to docs for the DOM.

Cheers,
Claes