There are Coffeescript forks that try to deal with issues like this. Here's one that takes a different approach on a bunch of 'em, including the scoping: http

There are Coffeescript forks that try to deal with issues like this. Here's one that takes a different approach on a bunch of 'em, including the scoping: https://github.com/satyr/coco https://github.com/satyr/coco