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Discussion on: Explain IIFE(Immediately Invoke Function Expression) Like I'm Five

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Adam Crockett 🌀

It's not wired at all, as your tweet asks. It's just a workaround until top-level await comes in circa 2020. In the mean time I always include a semicolon Infront so the interpreter doesn't think that any preceding thing is a function call. You should do the same. 👽

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Manav Misra

Tx. 'weird' not 'wired' 👆🏽;)

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Adam Crockett 🌀

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