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Comment by showell30 | Hacker News Reader

It's a serious suggestion. Instead of introducing four top-level variables (log, sin, cos, and tan), just introduce one (Math) that wouldn't possibly conflict with a local.

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The CoffeeScript sourcecode itself does not advocate it. It uses functions named like 'last', 'starts', 'ends', 'extend' etc.

You are correct about "last", "start's, etc., but there are also good examples in the CS sourcecode of easily avoiding naming conflicts with a sensible naming convention:

  browser.coffee:CoffeeScript = require './coffee-script'
  coffee-script.coffee:{Lexer,RESERVED} = require './lexer'
  coffee-script.coffee:    {Module} = require 'module'
  command.coffee:{EventEmitter} = require 'events'
  grammar.coffee:{Parser} = require 'jison'
  lexer.coffee:{Rewriter, INVERSES} = require './rewriter'
  nodes.coffee:{Scope} = require './scope'
  nodes.coffee:{RESERVED} = require './lexer'
  repl.coffee:{Script}     = require 'vm'

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