For extra reading material for the curious, the history of the proposed implementation of "defer" in CoffeeScript: Part I: http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-s

For extra reading material for the curious, the history of the proposed implementation of "defer" in CoffeeScript: Part I: http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/issue/241 http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/issue/241 Part II: http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/issue/287 http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/issue/287 Part III: http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/issue/350 http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/issue/350 If you have a suggestion for how to handle the bits of "defer" that are still undecided, such as how to handle the "return" statement, and enforce a callback parameter, please feel free to add it to the third ticket.