Why they use reserved keyword 'continue' to name a function in IndexedDB's Cursor object?

Question

According to http://www.w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/#widl-IDBCursor-continue, the IDBCursor object has methods named "continue" and "delete". Aren't those reserved keywords? Why would they use these names in the specs?

My javascript compiler keeps warning me about the reserved keyword and its really annoying.

Answer 1

If you just want to "shut the compiler up" you can use string based property access instead:

obj['continue']

is the same as

obj.continue

Answer 2

The presence of .continue() will make IE8 bark with "SCRIPT1010: Expected identifier" even if that part of the code is never run. So it is probably a good thing that your compiler warns you.

missingnos solution solved this problem.