> If you are ignoring coffeescript because of this then that is a shame. I > use absolutely nothing but coffeescript and I can't imagine living without > it.
Yes it's a make or break for me. A language that doesn't even get its scoping at least somewhat right is a no-go for me .Introducing a new global variable messes up some code that worked before far below just because it happens to have a local variable named the same way? I don't even understand what a "great idea" it was to go back to implicit variable declaration, global or local, while everyone else after years of experience is pushing that down, a few characters for declaring a varible (local and global) is nothing compared to the hours of joy debugging. Javascript idiosyncratic scoping is already scraping that limit for me, and if it wouldn't have the momentum of being the web language, I'd already frown about that. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
