What is the purpose of a self executing function in javascript?

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Published on 2009-02-26T20:53:52Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 15:30 UTC
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In javascript, when would you want to use this:

(function(){
    //Bunch of code...
})();

over this:

//Bunch of code...

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