Actually yes, because of JavaScript/CoffeeScript's habit of pushing declarations up before evaluation, you can more or less lay out your code in any order. We t

Actually yes, because of JavaScript/CoffeeScript's habit of pushing declarations up before evaluation, you can more or less lay out your code in any order. We take advantage of this in the Lexer, here... http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/documentation/docs/lexer.html http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/documentation/docs... ...to stash all of the regex matchers down at the bottom of the file, even though the functions that make use of them come first.