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It's something that comes from Haskell. The `where` keyword always starts a new layout/indentation context. It's not strictly necessary and there are ways around it, so it's just a…

Yes, I'm not saying there aren't usages for them in general, but PureScript currently occupies a niche that doesn't get down to the level of binary file formats. This change is mor…

We found no usages of it in the wild. If there is real-world need for them, we'll consider adding them back.

There aren't native modules in JS (though they are coming in ES6). The module pattern is a way of having private scope by wrapping everything in a closure. So yes, the module patte…

A cleaner way of doing the immediately-invoking function in CS is to use a `do` statement. MyModule = do -> # module body No need for any parens.

If you're interested in doing some of this stuff in JS, there's sweet.js[1] for macros. I've also implemented some similar stuff as libraries: adt.js[2], matches.js[3], and tailrec…

With pattern matching, the term on the left is a destructuring of the term on the right. Using a static instance like that isn't what you normally do in practice, but rather someth…

I find it helps when you use short-circuiting. The returns are the first thing you see, making it more obvious what is going on. myfn = (arg) -> return 1 if arg is "one" return 2 i…

That's along similar lines, but more like guards in Haskell: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Control_structures

It meshes pretty well as is. If only I could get rid of the strings and redundant arguments. mymap = pattern { '_, []' : -> [] 'f, [x, xs...]' : (f, x, xs) -> [f x].concat mymap(f,…

You are correct. There is not a guarantee for the future, though I doubt this behavior will change for V8 (this is currently node only). If that scares you, you can use the combina…

Take a look at the next sentence: "Keep in mind, that time is measured in the single microseconds (1µs vs 3µs) to dispatch 5 calls to the same function." So you are still looking a…

Pattern matching is common in functional languages like Haskell or Scala. It's like a form of overloading on steroids, letting you inspect the values and structure of the arguments…

I don't think so. It's not like it really does things for you or abstracts away the weirdness of CSS like jQuery does for JS. You can't write a functioning website without knowing …

Might I also suggest nib, and excellent set of Stylus extensions for working with CSS3. One of the most useful features is image inlining, especially for gradients. While they end …