Difference between “anonymous function” and “function literal” in JavaScript?

Question

The book Learning JavaScript defines anonymous functions as follows...

Functions are objects. As such, you can create them - just like a String

Answer 1

This:

new Function("toWhom", "alert('Hi' + toWhom);")

and this:

function(toWhom) { alert('Hi' + toWhom); }

are two expressions that produce the same result - they return a new anonymous function object.

The second expression (and only the second expression) is called a function expression. You may also call it a function literal (although we could argue that a function declaration is also a function literal).