JavaScript curly braces with no function or json

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Solution

Can anyone tell me why there are curly braces with no text before them or after them? What does it do / what is the point of it?

There is no significant point to them in Javascript. It will act exactly the same as if the code was just

var  s_account="blog";

Speculation

In other languages which have block scope, this might restrict the scope of the variable, but since JS doesn't have that feature (for better or worse), braces without a control structure or function are essentially meaningless and ignored.

Most likely this code was left over from a deleted function or if statement however. It definitely is not a pattern to be copied.

Problem

Just opened a client's javascript file and the first lines are along the lines of this: ``` { var s_account="blog"; } ``` Which I don't get. Normally, in my experience, curly braces wrap around a function... ``` function welcome(){ ... ``` ...or a json JavaScript object ``` var attributes = { this : "that... ``` Can anyone tell me why there are curly braces with no text before them or after them? What does it do / what is the point of it?

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