function(){}();

What's wrong with this function?

On Dec 7, 11:44 am, ballpointpenthief <ballpointpenth...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:The total absence of any source code.

Henry a écrit :Is this supposed to be wrong ?

On Dec 7, 12:25 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:Where a function is concerned the only thing that is right about not
having any source code is that the absence of code avoids syntax
errors.

Henry a écrit :Indeed !-)

But what I meant was : is this (I mean, the OP snippet) supposed to be
wrong *wrt/ language specs* ? AFAICT it should be legal - even if
obviously useless ?

On 7 дек, 18:10, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
42.desthuilli...@wtf.websiteburo.oops.comwrote:
This expression contradicts the specification which says:

12.4 Expression Statement
Syntax
ExpressionStatement :
[lookahead ∉ {{, function}] Expression ;
... an ExpressionStatement cannot start with the function keyword
because that might make it ambiguous with a FunctionDeclaration.

On Dec 7, 1:21 pm, AKS <aksus...@yandex.ruwrote:The corrected version is:
(function(){})();

On 7 ÄÅË, 18:33, ballpointpenthief <ballpointpenth...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:Yes, of course, and I tell you why - this time you use the grouping
operator (11.1.6 The Grouping Operator), which turns function
statement into valid function expression.

On Dec 7, 1:10 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:And what I meant (I said pretty explicitly) was that there was no
snippet in the OP to judge.

On Dec 7, 2:33 pm, ballpointpenthief <ballpointpenth...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:...Please see posts 2 and 5 of the following April 10, 2006 thread for a
more detailed explanation:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....638ebc5a4fe21/

Csaba Gabor from Vienna

In comp.lang.javascript message <173d0b5e-74d4-4b84-b24e-e33fbbbffc3e@e2
5g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, Fri, 7 Dec 2007 03:44:11, ballpointpenthief
<ballpointpenthief@yahoo.co.ukposted:Reading FAQ 2.3 para 2 sentence 2 will help you to understand other
replies.

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