Quick question on JQuery and functions

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I’m just getting started with learning JQuery, and in the video tutorial I’m following, the writer uses conventions like this:

$(function() {
   //blablabla
});

I find that to be a little too many brackets, especially in event listeners, and I just find that code plain dirty.

Just wondering if it’s possible to do something similar to ActionScript, and instead pass in a reference to a function instead of defining a new one each and every time:

$(finishedLoading);

function finishedLoading() {
   //blablabla
}