[removed] How is “function onload() {}” different from “onload = function() {}”?

Question

In the answers to this question, we read that function f() {} defines the name locally, while [var] f = function() {} defines it globally. That makes p

Answer 1

Many people are correctly pointing out the global / local difference between (UPDATE: Those answers have mostly been removed by their authors now)

var x = function() {

and

function x() {

But that doesn't actually answer your specific question as you aren't actually doing the first one of these.

The difference between the two in your example is:

// Adds a function to the onload event
onload = function() {
    alert("hello");
}

Whereas

// Declares a new function called "onload"
function onload() {
    alert("hello");
}