> doSomething (-> > 'hello'), 1 > Indentation is significant in CoffeeScript, just like it is in Python. Just having a parenthesis shouldn't change that. Th

> doSomething (-> > 'hello'), 1 > Indentation is significant in CoffeeScript, just like it is in Python. Just having a parenthesis shouldn't change that. The point, I think, is that the example above should be an error instead of compiling into something you wouldn't expect. Here's a syntax I've seen a lot: doSomething -> 'hello' , 1 or even doSomething -> 'hello' , 1 That style is also handy to construct a long list of object literals. > This is called destructuring assignment, I think destructuring assignment is something else entirely. http://coffeescript.org/#destructuring http://coffeescript.org/#destructuring > its probably better to use isnt instead of !=, although rather than !=, you would want !== '!=' is equivalent to 'isnt'. And '!==' is not CoffeeScript at all.