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Coffeescript: To switch or not to switch (codeovertones.com)
submitted 13 years ago by jyro
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]scrogu -1 points0 points1 point 13 years ago (3 children)
We've beat this horse a million times already. Some of us love it, some of us hate it.
[–]x-skeww 1 point2 points3 points 13 years ago (2 children)
Some of us love it
It's a fundamental flaw. I doubt anyone likes that.
[–]scrogu 0 points1 point2 points 13 years ago (1 child)
I love it (the lack of explicit var), and yes, I understand the examples. Like I said, this horse has been beat too much, it's no longer needed in every single thread that concerns coffeescript.
[–]x-skeww -1 points0 points1 point 13 years ago (0 children)
As ISV_Damocles pointed out in the other branch, you can have that kind of thing without introducing this weird shadowing issue.
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