alt Hacker NewsWhy wrap in a lambda?
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tinyhitman • last Tuesday at 11:13 PM
Could be to allow use of local variables that do not leak into the scope this code is executed in. That's what I use this pattern for.
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Why wrap in a lambda?
Could be to allow use of local variables that do not leak into the scope this code is executed in. That's what I use this pattern for.
Because I learned JS before ECMAScript 6 was widely supported by browsers and haven't written a ton of it targeting modern browsers. You're right that it's unnecessary.