The braces are there because JavaScript's object literals are already pretty nice. But it would certainly be an interesting feature, if assigning to a block imp

The braces are there because JavaScript's object literals are already pretty nice. But it would certainly be an interesting feature, if assigning to a block implied an object literal. obj: prop: value prop2: value2 edit: I've opened a ticket for this, here: http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/issue/146 http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/issue/146