Deathmatch: Self Executing Anonymous Function -vs- “new function”

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Thanks to Joseph for helping me find the answer (even though I don\'t like it =).

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Answer 1

I've seen this and I liked it

var MyThing = (function(){

    function MyThing(args){
    }

    MyThing.prototype = {
        prototypeMethod: function() {}
    };

    return MyThing;
})();

You can also do this

MyThing.create = function(args){
    return new MyThing(args);
}

Usually it is enclosed in an another self invoking function. In order to avoid naming collisions.

(function({

})(window);

And the window object is passed as an argument, to assign it to an upper scope.

window.MyThing = MyThing;

In this example you can use, static variables,private etc.