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Re:Comparing JavaScript, CoffeeScript & ClojureScript by jashkenas on Thursday January 26, 2012 @03:40PM (#3515881)
Yes, that's a much nicer protocol demo.

When you end up writing switches on types in your protocol implementation ... it fails to demonstrate any particular advantage over switching on types in a simple function.

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Re:Comparing JavaScript, CoffeeScript & ClojureScript by swannodette on Thursday January 26, 2012 @03:45PM (#3515911)
Glad you think so. Thanks stevelosh. I avoided taking the extra step since I was writing for people of varying levels of familiarity with JavaScript, CoffeeScript, and ClojureScript.

But perhaps I'm a bit old school - I explained something with a minor flaw to leave something for the reader to solve :)

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Re:Comparing JavaScript, CoffeeScript & ClojureScript by iamgilesbowkett on Thursday January 26, 2012 @05:51PM (#3516335)
As a busy person who finds your ideas interesting but has no time for riddles, I would really appreciate it if you could at least drop some hints here.
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