Anonymous Style
When a function is to be invoked immediately, the entire invocation expression should be wrapped in parens so that it is clear that the value being produced is the result of the function and not the function itself. I have already commented the popular JavaScript Code Convention article, but latest cited sentence is probably the only one I have never been sure about. Why Bother Actually, I have always found the expression: var something = function(){ // do stuff // return something }(); // invoke kinda enough to invoke inline a function expression. Somebody argued that above style is ambiguous. Since an inline invoke could be performed against a massive function body, the point is that we may need to scroll 'till the end of the function expression to know if it has been executed or not. In my opinion, whenever there is a function expression, we should always check the end of this function or we'll never be sure about the assigned value. Fair enough, even if the fun...