Coffeescript chokes on unmatched quotes in comments

[chreekat]

The following CoffeeScript fails to compile:

addJulius [coffee|(
    # That's a wrap
    alert "Hi")|]

Take out the quote, or add one, and it works.

[chreekat]

By the way, this is relatively new: it popped up when I migrated from 0.10 to 0.11.

[gregwebs]

We now enforce proper English in comments :)

Actually, we have to compile coffeescript at compile time into valid coffeescript while still allowing for variable insertion. The variable insertion syntax is illegal so it is escaped with coffeescript's backticks. However, inside a string (quotes) it is perfectly legal.

I would like to avoid writing my own coffeescript compiler, but I see 2 solutions 2 this neither of which seem horribly difficult.

1. first check to see if there is any variable interpolation
2. ignore comments