diff --git a/docs/components.md b/docs/components.md
index b6cc3131..efe782d1 100644
--- a/docs/components.md
+++ b/docs/components.md
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ myApp.users.index.view = function() {
 There's no rule for how you should organize code, and given that namespacing is often achieved with simple javascript, you can use simple javascript patterns to alias a long namespace and reduce the amount of typing:
 
 ```javascript
-new function() {
+!function() {
 	var module = myApp.users.index = {}
 
 	module.vm = {/*...*/}
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ new function() {
 		
 		return vm.something
 	}
-}
+}()
 ```
 
 ---
diff --git a/docs/getting-started.md b/docs/getting-started.md
index 4384622f..84760ade 100644
--- a/docs/getting-started.md
+++ b/docs/getting-started.md
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ In the case of our todo application, the view-model needs a few things: it needs
 
 ```javascript
 //define the view-model
-todo.vm = new function() {
+todo.vm = (function() {
 	var vm = {}
 	vm.init = function() {
 		//a running list of todos
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ todo.vm = new function() {
 		};
 	}
 	return vm
-}
+}())
 ```
 
 The code above defines a view-model object called `vm`. It is simply a javascript object that has a `init` function. This function initializes the `vm` object with three members: `list`, which is simply an array, `description`, which is an `m.prop` getter-setter function with an empty string as the initial value, and `add`, which is a method that adds a new Todo instance to `list` if an input description getter-setter is not an empty string.
@@ -334,10 +334,10 @@ vm.add = function() {
 		vm.list.push(new todo.Todo({description: vm.description()}));
 		vm.description("");
 	}
-}.bind(this);
+};
 ```
 
-The difference with the modified version is that `add` no longer takes an argument, and we call `.bind(this)` at the end to lock the scoping of `this` inside of the `add` method.
+The difference with the modified version is that `add` no longer takes an argument.
 
 With this, we can make the `onclick` binding on the template *much* simpler:
 
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ todo.TodoList = Array;
 //stores a description for new todos before they are created
 //and takes care of the logic surrounding when adding is permitted
 //and clearing the input after adding a todo to the list
-todo.vm = new function() {
+todo.vm = (function() {
 	var vm = {}
 	vm.init = function() {
 		//a running list of todos
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ todo.vm = new function() {
 		};
 	}
 	return vm
-}
+}())
 
 //the controller defines what part of the model is relevant for the current page
 //in our case, there's only one view-model that handles everything
diff --git a/docs/mithril.render.md b/docs/mithril.render.md
index 9874ac56..a391156c 100644
--- a/docs/mithril.render.md
+++ b/docs/mithril.render.md
@@ -64,17 +64,17 @@ The example below shows how to use a SubtreeDirective object to create a static
 var app = {}
 
 //here's an example plugin that determines whether data has changes.
-//in this case, it simply assume data has changed the first time, and never changes after that.
-app.bindOnce = new function() {
+//in this case, it simply assumes data has changed the first time, and never changes after that.
+app.bindOnce = (function() {
 	var cache = {}
-	function(view) {
+	return function(view) {
 		if (!cache[view.toString()]) {
 			cache[view.toString()] = true
 			return view()
 		}
 		else return {subtree: "retain"}
 	}
-}
+}())
 
 //here's the view
 app.view = function() {
diff --git a/tests/mock.js b/tests/mock.js
index 7adbceeb..68092cef 100644
--- a/tests/mock.js
+++ b/tests/mock.js
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ if (!Object.keys) {
 }
 
 var mock = {}
-mock.window = new function() {
+mock.window = (function() {
 	var window = {}
 	window.document = {}
 	window.document.childNodes = []
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ mock.window = new function() {
 			callback()
 		}
 	}
-	window.XMLHttpRequest = new function() {
+	window.XMLHttpRequest = (function() {
 		var request = function() {
 			this.$headers = {}
 			this.setRequestHeader = function(key, value) {
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ mock.window = new function() {
 		}
 		request.$instances = []
 		return request
-	}
+	}())
 	window.location = {search: "", pathname: "", hash: ""},
 	window.history = {}
 	window.history.pushState = function(data, title, url) {
@@ -165,4 +165,4 @@ mock.window = new function() {
 		window.location.pathname = window.location.search = window.location.hash = url
 	}
 	return window
-}
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+}())
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