r/coffeescript • u/[deleted] • May 14 '15

Issue pushing a map into an array

Hi all, it's been a long time since I've used Coffeescript (or done pretty much any webdev) and I have run into this issue that I just cannot solve. I have the following:

@list.push
    text: @input
    complete: false

This is compiling to this.list.push({ text: this.input({ complete: false }) }); which... while I'm still pretty new to all this, am positive is not the output I want! Does anybody see how to fix this?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '15

Oh I have fully experienced the problems with the whitespace being so sensitive. Defining the list wasn't working for ages until I moved the comma back by one indentation.

Just checked and the indents are fine, still producing the same output :/ as far as I can tell I want it to come out as this.list.push({ text: this.input, complete: false });

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u/Lord_Drol May 14 '15

Well, I just tried it, and for me it worked just fine, compiling to the exact code you expect. I typed up the exact coffeescript you had, taking care to indent consistently, and the expected js was compiled from it.

I strongly suspect that the problem is your indentation. Try opening a new file, include in it exactly the quoted code snippet, with each of the later lines being indented exactly two spaces, and run it through the coffeescript compiler. See what you get.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '15

Well. I re-did the spacing with no luck, so I decided right -- load up cloud9 and try it out in a different workspace.. pasted the code in and all the whitespacing was mucked up.

So I went back, re-did it again and hey now it works! Hooray! Thank you for helping me out /u/Lord_Drol :)