Yep, parentheses force {} to be interpreted as an expression rather than a block — same reason why IIFEs have !function instead of just function.
/me goes back to get second folding chair.
I thought IIFE's usually looked like (function (...params) {})(...args). That's not the latest way? To be honest I never used them much, at least not after arrow functions arrived.
So there's yet another level of quirkery to this bullshit then, it seems. 😆 Nice digging! 🤝
I also noticed that if you surround the curlies with parentheses, you get the same again:
Yep, parentheses force
{}to be interpreted as an expression rather than a block — same reason why IIFEs have!functioninstead of justfunction./me goes back to get second folding chair.
I thought IIFE's usually looked like
(function (...params) {})(...args). That's not the latest way? To be honest I never used them much, at least not after arrow functions arrived.