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The next sentence includes links to bits of the compiler in literate CoffeeScript. https://gist.github.com/jashkenas/3fc3c1a8b1009c00d9df

It's writing a Markdown document, where the code blocks, indented 4 spaces, are executed. And the rest of the document is essentially nicely-formatted comments in the form of Markdown.

Thanks for explaining.

I've added a bit more clarification to that paragraph. Hopefully soon we'll get proper highlighting for it committed into GitHub, and then a simple link should make things dead obvious.

Thanks!

I assume you place the .litcoffee files next to the .coffee files and only the indented parts in the .litcoffee files will be compiled to JS?