Category:CoffeeScript: Difference between revisions

A common JavaScript snippet using the jQuery library is

 

$(document).ready(function() {

// Initialization code goes here

});

or even shorter,

$(function() {

// Initialization code goes here

});

 

In CoffeeScript, the <code>function</code> keyword is replaced by the <code>-></code> symbol, and indentation is used instead of curly braces (except when defining an [[associative array]]), as in Python. Also, parentheses can usually be omitted. Thus, the CoffeeScript equivalent of the snippet above is

 

<!-- Ruby is probably the most similar language that GeSHi supports -->

$(document).ready ->

# Initialization code goes here

or

$ ->

# Initialization code goes here

 

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