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And my point is that you can't watch out and protect yourself from it, because the quirk can be triggered by different code from the code you're actually writing. You can carefully write code that works just fine, and then, unbeknownst to you, someone else can modify a completely different part of the file, and break your code. How do you protect yourself from that? By making sure that every single person with commit…
>And my point is that you can't watch out and protect yourself from it Of course you can. You simply enclose the block in an immediate function (using "do") and declare your local variables as parameters to the function. Do that, and it is impossible for any outer scope to screw your code up. If you're working on a project where lots of coders of questionable aptitude are going to have commit access, you make declari…
Re: Discourse ditches CoffeeScript
#81Ok, you can protect yourself by doing weird defensive coding gymnastics, but you can't protect yourself by just writing good code. I'd rather use a language that doesn't make me do gymnastics.