CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability

Re:CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability by nemetroid on Monday September 17, 2012 @05:19PM (#4534946)

Though, what's the benefit of putting the conditional after? I find these:

    if badness throw 'error'

    unless goodness return null

to be more readable

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Re:CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability by shardling on Monday September 17, 2012 @05:53PM (#4535098)

It's definitely nice to see the return at the beginning of the line -- makes the code easier to scan.

And anytime there's code after a return, it had better be connected to a conditional. :)

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Re:CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability by nemetroid on Monday September 17, 2012 @08:56PM (#4535715)

Those are good points. I'd probably make it multi-line:

    if badness
      throw 'error'
    
    unless goodness
      return null

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