“method” method in Crockford's book: [removed] The Good Parts

Question

Douglas Crockford wrote in his book (Page 4):

Throughout the book, a method method is used to define new methods, This is its definition:

Answer 1

As an aside, on P40:

The end () means "use the function that this function returns", not the outer function that returns it.

If he had left off the final (), a call to deentityify would return a function, rather than a string.

In Douglas Crockford's own words:

We immediately invoke the function we just made with the () operator. That invocation creates and returns the function that becomes the deentityify method.