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I have an anonymous function without parentheses, how does this work?

New to javascript,but i know that form 

<script>(function(){ somecode })();</script>

will immediately run somecode when it be interpreted.But when i was reading a html5 game source code,I encountered some code which form like this:

<script>(function(){})</script>

There is no parentheses attached.So what does it mean?

source code:https://github.com/oxyflour/STGame and the index.html has code form like below:

<script>(function(){})</script>
Solution

  • Refer the game.js file, they are using it as nodes that don't do anything(@Shilly) and accessing them with id in the script tag. I don't know what is being done with the d object but certainly it is being called somewhere, look how they're using the innerHTML

    else if (v.tagName == 'SCRIPT' && $attr(v, 'type') == 'text/html') {
  d[v.id] = v.innerHTML;
} else if (v.tagName == 'SCRIPT') {
  d[v.id] = eval(v.innerHTML)(_t);
}

    An example of what's being done:

    eval(document.getElementById('myscript').innerHTML)('test');
    <script id="myscript">
(function(a) {
  a ? console.log(a) : console.log('some string')
})
</script>