Ask HN: Forking CoffeeScript to Fix the Mad Mad Mad Scope Issue

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11 years ago

I would be interested to hear about how difficult it would be to fork CoffeeScript and fix the scope issue outlined in these posts.

http://raganwald.com/2013/07/27/Ive-always-been-mad.html

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/12/22/implicit-scoping-in-coffeescript/

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1j1cw7/coffeescripts_scoping_is_madness/

I work in Python on the server and JavaScript on the client all day long and I really do think syntax matters.

I would love a client language that was as clean and beautiful as CoffeeScipt but I think this issue is a show stopper for me.

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