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  2. Immediately invoked function expression - Wikipedia

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    Immediately invoked function expressions may be written in a number of different ways. [3] A common convention is to enclose the function expression – and optionally its invocation operator – with the grouping operator, [4] in parentheses, to tell the parser explicitly to expect an expression.

  3. JavaScript syntax - Wikipedia

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    The JavaScript standard library lacks an official standard text output function (with the exception of document.write). Given that JavaScript is mainly used for client-side scripting within modern web browsers , and that almost all Web browsers provide the alert function, alert can also be used, but is not commonly used.

  4. JavaScript - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 December 2024. High-level programming language Not to be confused with Java (programming language), Javanese script, or ECMAScript. JavaScript Screenshot of JavaScript source code Paradigm Multi-paradigm: event-driven, functional, imperative, procedural, object-oriented Designed by Brendan Eich of ...

  5. Anonymous function - Wikipedia

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    In computer programming, an anonymous function (function literal, expression or block) is a function definition that is not bound to an identifier. Anonymous functions are often arguments being passed to higher-order functions or used for constructing the result of a higher-order function that needs to return a function. [ 1 ]

  6. Async/await - Wikipedia

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    JavaScript added support for async/await in 2017 as part of ECMAScript 2017 JavaScript edition. Rust added support for async/await with version 1.39.0 in 2019 using the async keyword and the .await postfix operator, both introduced in the 2018 edition of the language.

  7. ECMAScript - Wikipedia

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    Previously, JavaScript only supported function scoping using the keyword var, but ECMAScript 2015 added the keywords let and const, allowing JavaScript to support both block scoping and function scoping. JavaScript supports automatic semicolon insertion, meaning that semicolons that normally terminate a statement in C may be omitted in ...

  8. Wikipedia:User scripts/Guide - Wikipedia

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    JavaScript allows nested functions. $ (function (){function submitEdit {/* do stuff */} /* main code here */}); Ajax. AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a ...

  9. Callback (computer programming) - Wikipedia

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    In computer programming, a callback is a function that is stored as data (a reference) and designed to be called by another function – often back to the original abstraction layer. A function that accepts a callback parameter may be designed to call back before returning to its caller which is known as synchronous or blocking.