You can also write immediately-invoked function expressions, which can contain multiline JavaScript inside the function definition.

Vice President Mike Pence is opposed to a call by Democrats in Congress and some Republicans to invoke the 25th Amendment to strip President Trump of his powers before his term ends, a person ...

The example given is basically like so: auto const somethingComplex = [&] { // snip }(); It's not clear from the first line whether somethingComplex is actually a function, or not. In JavaScript, it's ...

Earlier this week I wrote about IIDE, Immediately-Invoked-Data-Expressions. Not an official term as such but an insight into the explanation of what our code is actually doing when utilising HTML5 ...

JavaScript Modules This is an immediately-invoking function expression (FKA “anonymous function”, “self-invoking function”, etc). The implementation of this is a function that is immediately invoked ...