A bunch of these are cheating... just wrapping () in various ways or accessing call and apply in various ways. For general functions, I think the commenter who says there are three ways to invoke a function is correct: (), call, apply.

There are additional ways specific functions are called -- I'm thinking of toString and valueOf.

Yeah, considering that `Function.prototype.apply === console.log.apply` there are a lot of dupes here. I would consider eval/new Function to be a legitimate fourth way though.

Eval is another way to run arbitrary JS code. It's cheating here because nothing about the use of eval is specific to calling a function.

According to that standard, opening an external interpreter would be yet another way.

Agree with the above that there are really only three ways here.

Yes, you have a good point about eval and anything else that boils down to invoking a string as a function.

As other people have pointed out in the gist, the syntax for tagged template literals gives an additional way to invoke a function

  foo`abc ${bar} ${baz}`

This will call foo with the arguments

  [["abc ", " ", ""], bar, baz]

Not cheating, this is an anon function and its call

`log` is invoked by the expression `console.log(2)`. That's exactly the same as example 1.

but the inner function is not anonymous, which is the focus of the question.