Np, I only made it 'cause i read this thread and was bored at
work :) .. and saw the value in it afterwards. I revised it a little,
I recommend doing the same.

On Feb 16, 5:44 pm, Jason Persampieri <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Dmitry A. Soshnikov <
>
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > By the way, CoffeeScript provides a convenient sugar for that:
>
> > obj.foo?.bar? and stuff?()
>
> > which desugars into (notice, how elegantly the last "stuff" is checked to
> > be a functon):
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Angus Croll <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What worries me is the unwanted side effects.
>
> > console.log(d.foo.bar.bam) and maybe you just created 3 new objects
>
> The CoffeeScript syntax is very nice, but I'm still not seeing the necessity
> of the extra syntax.  Don't get me wrong, I'm fairly certain there's
> something I'm missing (and I keep thinking it may have to do with function
> references... but can't come up with an example).
>
> The way I imagined this happening:
> - If this is a LeftHandSideExpression, generate objects as necessary (which
> is what you'd want, right?).
> - Otherwise, as soon as a property is "undefined", the entire expression is
> "undefined"... and no new objects are created.
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Jason Mulligan <
>
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > That's really why it shouldn't behave that way.
>
> > Btw, I just added that define() to abaaso(.com); my jslib .. it's
> > pretty useful when you need to work with something pre-existing, not
> > ideal for constructing (json is).
>
> I'll likely be stealing this... but only for my personal stuff.  It's hard
> enough getting my team to follow best practices anyway :)

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