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jerome
jerome

Reputation: 4977

Esoteric JS Question

Is there any particular reason that this sort of construct would not work in JS? (JSLint does not accept it.)

(function(function(){

    }){

})()

I can see this type of chaining going on forever, or at least as far as one would want/need.

Does anyone have any thoughts?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 280

Answers (3)

Ateş Göral
Ateş Göral

Reputation: 140050

Did you mean:

(function () {
// ...
})((function () {
// ...
})());

Upvotes: 3

Gareth
Gareth

Reputation: 138072

You can create an anonymous function which accepts a function as an argument, and immediately pass it another anonymous function:

(function(fn) { })(function() { })

But I can't think of a single useful reason for doing that.

Upvotes: 0

chaos
chaos

Reputation: 124297

Well... yeah, it wouldn't work because it's not meaningful to embed an anonymous function in the argument list of an anonymous function. What are you trying to specify, there?

Upvotes: 0

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