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* Docs: named functions and function declarations * No more prototypal `extends`; update docs and example * More comprehensive documentation of the existential operator; closes #1631 * Better document operators, including `from` * No fat arrow class methods anymore * Destructuring shouldn’t say that default values are applied in case of undefined or null * Spinoff generator and async functions into their own sections; reorder things so that the sections on functions come just before classes, and destructuring goes next to the operators (which discuss assignment) * Rewrite “CoffeeScript 2” section, making it less practical and more explanatory; move practical info into “Usage” * Update “Variable Scoping and Lexical Safety” section to remove incorrect reference to Ruby (fixes #2360), add missing details about the safety wrapper, add note about `let`/`const`. * Updated browser compiler * Updated docs * Rewrite Literate CoffeeScript breaking changes * Split apart the “Breaking Changes” and “Unsupported Features” sections into separate sidebar items and files * Add example of `not in`, closes #3281 * Fix words in bold that should be in backticks * Consolidate some breaking changes sections * Add Node API documentation; closes #3551 * Move the chaining documentation out of the changelog into its own section
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Operators and Aliases
Because the == operator frequently causes undesirable coercion, is intransitive, and has a different meaning than in other languages, CoffeeScript compiles == into ===, and != into !==. In addition, is compiles into ===, and isnt into !==.
You can use not as an alias for !.
For logic, and compiles to &&, and or into ||.
Instead of a newline or semicolon, then can be used to separate conditions from expressions, in while, if/else, and switch/when statements.
As in YAML, on and yes are the same as boolean true, while off and no are boolean false.
unless can be used as the inverse of if.
As a shortcut for this.property, you can use @property.
You can use in to test for array presence, and of to test for JavaScript object-key presence.
In a for loop, from compiles to the ES2015 of. (Yes, it’s unfortunate; the CoffeeScript of predates the ES2015 of.)
To simplify math expressions, ** can be used for exponentiation and // performs integer division. % works just like in JavaScript, while %% provides “dividend dependent modulo”:
codeFor('modulo')
All together now:
| CoffeeScript | JavaScript |
|---|---|
is |
=== |
isnt |
!== |
not |
! |
and |
&& |
or |
` |
true, yes, on |
true |
false, no, off |
false |
@, this |
this |
a in b |
[].indexOf.call(b, a) >= 0 |
a of b |
a in b |
for a from b |
for (a of b) |
a ** b |
Math.pow(a, b) |
a // b |
Math.floor(a / b) |
a %% b |
(a % b + b) % b |
codeFor('aliases')