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Comment by BrendanEich | Hacker News Reader

If you happen to write

  var foo = 'bar',
      baz = 'bletch'
  (function (global) {
    //module pattern code here ...
  })(this);

then you have trouble. Semicolons are not optional (meaning always optional, you can leave them out at will). Please read my blog post.

I wish `void` would get more love for IIFEs instead of just sitting there in a dark corner of JS, unloved.

    var foo = 'bar'
    var baz = 'bletch'
    
    void function (global) {
      //module pattern code here ...
    })(this)

Almost perfect, but you left an unmatched close parenthesis before the call operator.

This is a good example! It will try to run 'bletch' as a function. awesome.

Who still writes this in 2015?

Now is:

    module.exports = function(){};