On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:17 PM, David Herman <dher...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> > Traceur is very good! I'd just like to have something that compiles to
> ES5 without intermediate libraries, the way CoffeeScript works, so that it's
> easier to debug and use in NodeJS.
>
> You aren't going to be able to match CoffeeScript's readability for many
> features, especially generators, private names, and proxies. Those require
> deep, whole-program compilation strategies.
>

I'm unclear, but are you saying: some features translate directly to simple
JS but some features are more pervasive so their translation will not be as
readable? So we need to develop new strategies for debugging these features?
Or something else?

jjb



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> Dave
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