Immediately invoked function expression: Difference between revisions

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== Usage ==

Immediately invoked function expressions may be written in a number of different ways.<ref name=Enlighten>{{cite book |last=Lindley |first=Cody |title=JavaScript Enlightenment |
year=2013 |publisher=O'Reilly |isbn=978-1-4493-4288-3 |page=61}}</ref> A [[Coding conventions|common convention]] is to enclose the function expression{{spnd}}and optionally its invocation operator{{spnd}}with the grouping operator,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Grouping |title=Grouping operator |publisher=Mozilla Developer Network}}</ref> in parentheses, to tell the parser explicitly to expect an expression. Otherwise, in most situations, when the parser encounters the <code>function</code> keyword, it treats it as a function declaration (statement), and not as a function expression.<ref>{{cite book |last=Zakas |first=Nicholas |title=Maintainable JavaScript |year=2012 |publisher=O'Reilly |isbn=978-1-4493-2768-2 |page=44}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://exploringjs.com/es6/ch_arrow-functions.html#iiaf |title=ExploringJS |author=Axel Rauschmayer}}</ref>

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