The blog that the OP pointed to said that in coffeescript you can't place
the calling code higher in the file than the called function definition. He
was wrong. He ruled out coffeescript for this reason. That is incorrect
and you can code the style he is promoting in coffeescript.
I felt this was important and I was worried your post would corroborate
that incorrect claim.
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Andrew Kelley <superjo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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> 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>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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