[kreeger]

So it's not just me, then. IMO, writing `someThing ||= {}` is much more eloquent than `var someThing = someThing || {}`.

The first point he raises is a valid argument; CoffeeScript's intro does uglify the JS a little to make its point. But it doesn't take much.

> ...merely inaccurate due to a lack of knowledge on JavaScript...

Kinda think the opposite idea was how CoffeeScript came into being, amirite? It was written to make JavaScript look AND act better. It wasn't developed by people that had no idea how to use JavaScript, and it certainly isn't used exclusively by people who don't know how to use JavaScript, too.

[subspacedout]

I must agree whole heartedly. I feel the author looks at the first few examples on the coffeescript page. Can I see an eloquent example of list comprehension or nested functions?