You didn't sound rude to me - it's fine.
I am specifically talking about calling a function before defining it.
That's the whole point. What I said holds true.
On Saturday, August 17, 2013 5:02:51 PM UTC-4, Mark Hahn wrote:
>
> Ok, I apologize for the rudeness in my tone. Let me explain what is going
> on.
>
> Your example fails not because the call is above the definition in the
> file, it fails because the call happens before the definition in time.
>
> My example has the call above the definition in the file but the
> definition happens before the call in time.
>
> So mine succeeds and yours doesn't. The important thing for the
> readability of the code is that the call is above the definition in the
> file. This makes the code read as if it is linear. The need for the extra
> start() at the bottom is a small price to pay. Also, I only have this call
> at the bottom of each module.
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Mark Hahn <ma...@reevuit.com<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> > ReferenceError: doNext is not defined
>>
>> Wrong. Run it. It works great. The first two lines are just
>> assignments. So they are both defined when start runs.
>>
>> I've gotten this exact response when I've posted this before. People
>> blindly believe the myth.
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Andrew Kelley
>> <super...@gmail.com<javascript:>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> doNext()
>>> doNext = ->
>>>
>>> ReferenceError: doNext is not defined
>>>
>>> vs
>>>
>>> doNext()
>>> function doNext() {
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> On Saturday, August 17, 2013 2:47:07 PM UTC-4, Mark Hahn wrote:
>>>
>>>> > First to note - Coffee-Script actually *prohibits* this kind of code
>>>> organization, because all functions are necessarily assignments.
>>>>
>>>> It is a myth that you have to put function definitions before the
>>>> calling code in coffee. Here is a pattern I use in all my code ...
>>>>
>>>> start = -> doNext()
>>>> doNext = -> ...
>>>>
>>>> start()
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Andrew Kelley <super...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I wrote this article as a response to all the recent callback hate:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://andrewkelley.me/post/**js-callback-organization.html<http://andrewkelley.me/post/js-callback-organization.html>
>>>>>
>>>>> It contains:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Acknowledgement of better async syntax than what callbacks offer
>>>>> - Tips on how to structure callback based code
>>>>> - Reasons why you might want to stick with js instead of a
>>>>> compile-to-js language.
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