jquery : $(document).ready only accept anonymous handler?

Question

Is it possible to have a defined function as a handler to jQuery's $(document).ready() instead of anonymous function ?

I've done several experiments but to no avail. One of them is here : http://pastebin.com/XHKPc879.

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible:

function pancakes() { /* Do interesting things */ }
$(document).ready(pancakes);

The problem with your pastebin:

$(document).ready(test());

is the you're calling the test function when you say test(), just drop the parentheses and you're good.