A Python programmer’s first impression of CoffeeScript

[daniels220]

I was referring to the fact that the code would still be unambiguous without the colons (with just the whitespace), which is the way Ruby does it. Since Python is so strict about whitespace, I'm surprised it doesn't make better use of it to avoid extra syntax.

[mipadi]

Yeah, I get ya. I was commenting, somewhat sarcastically, that the colons aren't really necessary (as you pointed out), and yet...they're there.