On 12/31/10, fernando trasvina <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi. very nice explanation but what i don't fully understand is why the
> grouping operator makes the parenthesis following the function declaration
> work as call.
>
Did you read the last message I posted?
> (function(x){alert(x)}(1));
>
That is a FunctionExpression which is an ExpressionStatement.
> why this is not treated the same way as:
>
> function(x){}(1);
>
That is a SyntaxError. The most recent message on this thread (mine),
explains that the production for ExpressionStatement explicitly
forbids an ExpressionStatement to begin with the function keyword.
Please do not top post.
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