A style guide becomes very important in a language like CoffeeScript where (a) there aren't established conventions for the language yet like Python's PEP-8 and

A style guide becomes very important in a language like CoffeeScript where (a) there aren't established conventions for the language yet like Python's PEP-8 and (b) excluding unnecessary syntax is very, very tempting. No parens or braces necessary? Don't just omit them everywhere! I was reading the source code for batman.js (written in CS, after having written quite a bit of CS myself), and some lines were absolutely baffling. It took way too much work to parse. I've started building up a personal style guide. The most useful parts for maintaining readability are probably: - Always keep the parens for function calls, possibly excepting oft-used functions that are only being called with one argument. (e.g. document.createElement 'div'; parseFloat '10.5') - Always keep the braces for object literals when used in an expression (e.g. as an argument in a function call); omitting them in a simple assignment is OK.