I've been poking around a bit in the jQuery source code. It's been enlightening and has proven that I don't know as much about _javascript_ as I thought I did!
Here's a pattern that occurs frequently that I'm really curious about:
new function() {
// do stuff
}
Is the purpose of this just to provide local scope to the variables used? Is there an equivalant syntax that may be more common? I intuitively wouldn't even think the code inside the function would get executed unless the whole thing was proceeded by "()", but obviously I'd be wrong. What's really surprising is that I couldn't find any information about this technique in a google search.
Just curious.
Thanks,
Todd
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