Re:CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability
by viseztrance on Monday September 17, 2012 @03:15PM
(#4534312)
I haven't used CS as much as yourself, but I don't find anything pretty in "element = =>".
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Re:CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability
by deanotron on Monday September 17, 2012 @06:02PM
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That is a good example, and something that is eased by syntax highlighting (although I rarely implement double-bar function literals, keeping a pythonic 'self = this' reference is preferrable in most cases)
Although it is all subjective aesthetics, CS shines when paired with underscore.js, and really all "callback-as-last-argument" paradigms, ie:
_.each items, (item) ->
# do stuff with item
# ...
(edited formatting, also what alec said below :)
Re:CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability
by alecperkins on Monday September 17, 2012 @05:40PM
(#4535039)
If you use anonymous functions a lot, it's amazing:
result = _.map object, (val, key) ->
foo(val)
is much cleaner than var result = _.map(object, function(val, key) {
return foo(val)
});
I think.