Named classes

[zmthy]

This should allow us to have classes with a name property that corresponds to the actual class name without causing the weird IE scoping error. It's listed here as a solution, but I haven't actually tested it, so it'd be swell if someone could give that a go.

Note that we could do this for all of our functions, but things would get overly complicated way too quickly with the extra closure that this solution uses, and that's not really in the spirit of Coffeescript.

[jashkenas]

Hey Tesco, this is a lovely patch, but as discussed on IRC, I don't think that it's necessary for modern browsers. Take a look at this stacktrace, using an uncompressed version of the current master compiler, and Google Chrome.

Closing as a wontfix, because of the verbosity of the generated code.

[jashkenas]

Reopening the ticket...

Tesco, you currently have this as the compiled output:

SomeNode = (function() {
  function SomeNode() {
    ...
  }
  return SomeNode;
})();

What do you think about compiling to this format instead?

SomeNode = (function() {
  return function SomeNode() {
    ...
  }
})();

[zmthy]

Err... what? Is that even valid code?

[jashkenas]

Sorry about that ... edited. Pop on in to #coffeescript if you'd like to get this merged now...

[zmthy]

Merged with the latest patches, and updated to not take up any more lines than non-named classed did.