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Re:Announcing CoffeeScript 2 by DiThi on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @11:19AM (#15285387)
You can always add an splat to use instead of arguments:

    (args...) =>
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Re:Announcing CoffeeScript 2 by ddlsmurf on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @01:59PM (#15287090)
Sure, but there used to be a strong performance advantage when using the arguments variable with function.apply, also editing arguments' values affected named parameters' values (not sure that's desirable, but you know, semantics)
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