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From: Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org>
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Subject: Re: calling function within (function() {...})();
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:16:36 +0100
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> writes:

> Eric Bednarz wrote:

>>>> window.setTimeout(x.a, 0);
>>>
>>>  window.setTimeout(function() { x.a(); }, 10);
>> 
>> You don’t say (I suppose creating a superfluous function object is
>> justified by not resolving those pesky identifiers first :^)
>
> The Function instance is not superfluous.  If you do not use the function 
> expression here, then only the reference to `x.a' will be called, which 
> means that `x.a' will be called as a method of the object that `window' 
> refers to, or if you will, the global object.  As a result, `this' in `x.a' 
> would not refer to the same object as `x', but to the other object.

That’s why I provided that example. I don’t know what makes you think
that you have to explain that (or what the ‘module pattern’ is) to me.