[cubicle67]

Edit: previous example was incorrect as pointed out by klibertp below. Hopefully they're correct now...

it's not exactly a shining example of good coffeescript, but I think this is equivalent js

    MyApp.president = Ember.Object.create({
        fullName: function(){
            return this.get('firstName') + ' ' + this.get('lastName');
        }.property('firstName', 'lastName')
    })

I'd probably write it in cs as

    MyApp.president = Ember.Object.create
        fullName: (
            -> "#{@get 'firstName'} #{@get 'lastName'}"
        ).property('firstName', 'lastName')

(ie multi line rather than a single line) but that's very much just stylistic choice. It's also a lousy example of the benefits of cs as the cs version doesn't add any benefit over the plain js one.

[klibertp]

You're wrong. The 'property' is a method on the Function prototype - take a closer look.

Anyway, style does matter and were this line written with readability in mind you wouldn't make this mistake.

Also, I would definitely abstract over @get and property:

    makeProperty = (attrs...) -> 
        func = () -> (@get(x) for x in attrs).join(" ")
        func.property(attrs...)

    MyApp.president = Ember.Object.create(
        fullName: makeProperty("firstName", "lastName")
    )

The parens after create are not needed, the next indented line should tell us that this is a function with arguments, but I don't mind them here.

[cubicle67]

gah! you're right! I've attempted to update my comment with corrected code, but given my caffeine and sleep deprived state there's a good chance it's just as wrong as my original effort :/

[knieveltech]

If it takes that much effort to gin up example code I think the point has been made.

[klibertp]

You're joking, right? If not, then you're trying to generalize one line of shitty code and one mistake of a tired programmer to the whole language - and I don't believe you'd want to do that!

[avenger123]

Clever or hard to read code is just that. I don't use CoffeeScript but I wouldn't use this example to be mean about it. At the end of the day, it is an acquired taste. My only concern is I don't have the time to invest to make a decision on it and I would suspect others are in the same boat. So, by default we choose a tentative no.