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Peter Mortensen
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this maybe a little late however myMy understanding of the asker's question is such that:

howHow does this magic work:

(function(){}) ('input') // utilisedUsed in his example

I maybemay be wrong however. However, the usual practice that people are familiar with is:

(function(){}('input') )

theThe reason is such that javascriptJavaScript parentheses akaAKA ()(), can't contain statements and when the parser encounters encounters the function keyword, it knows to parse it as a function expression and not a function declaration.

sourceSource: blog post http://benalman.com/news/2010/11/immediately-invoked-function-expression/Immediately-Invoked Function Expression (IIFE)

this maybe a little late however my understanding of the asker's question is such that

how does this magic work:

(function(){}) ('input') // utilised in his example

I maybe wrong however the usual practice that people are familiar with is

(function(){}('input') )

the reason is such that javascript parentheses aka (), can't contain statements and when the parser encounters the function keyword, it knows to parse it as a function expression and not a function declaration.

source: http://benalman.com/news/2010/11/immediately-invoked-function-expression/

My understanding of the asker's question is such that:

How does this magic work:

(function(){}) ('input') // Used in his example

I may be wrong. However, the usual practice that people are familiar with is:

(function(){}('input') )

The reason is such that JavaScript parentheses AKA (), can't contain statements and when the parser encounters the function keyword, it knows to parse it as a function expression and not a function declaration.

Source: blog post Immediately-Invoked Function Expression (IIFE)

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laycat
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this maybe a little late however my understanding of the asker's question is such that

how does this magic work:

(function(){}) ('input') // utilised in his example

(function(){}) ('input') // utilised in his example

I maybe wrong however the usual practice that people are familiar with is

(function(){}('input') )

(function(){}('input') )

the reason is such that javascript parentheses aka (), can't contain statements and when the parser encounters the function keyword, it knows to parse it as a function expression and not a function declaration.

source: http://benalman.com/news/2010/11/immediately-invoked-function-expression/

this maybe a little late however my understanding of the asker's question is such that

how does this magic work:

(function(){}) ('input') // utilised in his example

I maybe wrong however the usual practice that people are familiar with is

(function(){}('input') )

the reason is such that javascript parentheses can't contain statements and when the parser encounters the function keyword, it knows to parse it as a function expression and not a function declaration.

source: http://benalman.com/news/2010/11/immediately-invoked-function-expression/

this maybe a little late however my understanding of the asker's question is such that

how does this magic work:

(function(){}) ('input') // utilised in his example

I maybe wrong however the usual practice that people are familiar with is

(function(){}('input') )

the reason is such that javascript parentheses aka (), can't contain statements and when the parser encounters the function keyword, it knows to parse it as a function expression and not a function declaration.

source: http://benalman.com/news/2010/11/immediately-invoked-function-expression/

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laycat
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this maybe a little late however my understanding of the asker's question is such that

how does this magic work:

(function(){}) ('input') // utilised in his example

I maybe wrong however the usual practice that people are familiar with is

(function(){}('input') )

the reason is such that javascript parentheses can't contain statements and when the parser encounters the function keyword, it knows to parse it as a function expression and not a function declaration.

source: http://benalman.com/news/2010/11/immediately-invoked-function-expression/