That’s not going to work. The correct form still requires an (illegal)
top-level await:
await (async function() {
// await here
})();
The easiest way to spawn a top-level async function is:
here.then(function(result){},function(error){}) ;
On 19 December 2015 20:14:44 -00:00, Dmitry Soshnikov
<dmitry.soshni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Saturday, December 19, 2015, Šime Vidas <<sime.vi...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > With block statements + let/const, IIFEs are no longer needed to emulate
> > block-scoped variables. That got me thinking, are there other uses of
> > IIFEs, or are they no longer needed?
> > I’ve checked my code and found instances of this pattern:
> >
> > var foo = (function () {
> > var a, b, c; // helper variables
> > // some computation
> > return /* final value of foo */;
> >
> > }());
> >
> > Btw, there is a "do expression" proposal (stage 0) [1] for this type of
> > pattern.
> > Anything else?
> >
> FWIW, one of the still valid use cases is async IIFE, to spawn an async code
> (since there's no yet top-level async/await)
>
> (async function() {
> // await here
> })();
>
> Dmitry
>
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