Michael,
Thanks, exactly what i needed.
Will
>>> Yes, as others mentioned, ( function() { /*stuff*/ } )();
>>> will do the trick too, and is slightly more efficient.
>>>
>
>
>> is there somethign special about ( ... )(); ? I mean, how
>> does this come from another example?
>>
>
> There's nothing special about it. Any time you have a reference to a
> function, you can call that function by using () after the reference. So:
>
> function foo() {}
>
> foo(); // calls foo
> var moo = foo;
> moo(); // calls foo
> var noo = (foo);
> noo(); // calls foo
> (foo)(); // calls foo
> (moo)(); // calls foo
> ( true ? moo : noo )(); // calls foo
>
> Now, for some odd syntactic reason, you can't say:
>
> function() {}(); // error!
>
> But remember that foo() and (foo)() are the same thing. So you can throw
> some parens around the function:
>
> ( function() {} )(); // calls the function
>
> -Mike
>
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