foo -> bar 'foo', -> 'bar'
CofeeScript isn't simple with anonymous function creation.
foo -> bar 'foo', -> 'bar'
foo(-> bar('foo', -> 'bar'))
The point is an ending delimiter would greatly benefit CoffeScript.
Although CofeeScript certainly has its perks, anonymous function creating isn't simple then Javascript.
> Telling the user to write something in two different ways,
> depending on the argument being passed, isn't simple.
Fun fact: Any algorithm you can write in JavaScript can also be written as a single function, full of nested whiles, if/elses, fors, labels and breaks ... does that mean you should write your entire program as a single function? Nope.
I'd like to think that CoffeeScript functions read better without an "ending delimiter":
$('button').click ->
alert "hello"
# Or:
app.get '/', (req, res) ->
res.send 'Hello World'
app.get '/', (req,res) ->
res.send 'Hello World'
?There are horrible ways to write a lot of code, especially in whitespace based languages. What does petty comparisons like this bring to the argument?
Basically it would be a lot easier if a ending delimiter was the default for the language.