Todd ,
From my understanding its partly for variable scoping, partly for
garbage collection and part of a pattern to emulate classes. I did a
posting of the full pattern here: http://www.willjessup.com/?p=35
Will
> Hello,
> 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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