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First of all, that's hardly a bad thing about CoffeeScript. It's very consistent and is a tradeoff of not having to use var everywhere to define your variables.

If you want to complain about CoffeeScript, there are some much more fundamental issues. For example:

- I can write `foo.bar baz, bat` but if I call it with no arguments I have to use parens. `for.bar` will just return the function. I understand why it's the case, but it sucks.

- Syntax is so flexible that sometimes it still compiles when you make a mistake.




"- I can write `foo.bar baz, bat` but if I call it with no arguments I have to use parens. `for.bar` will just return the function. I understand why it's the case, but it sucks."

Interestingly, if you write "do foo.bar" you don't need to use parens and it will work as expected. I think this is a bit more idiomatic.




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