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Comment by igvadaimon | Hacker News Reader

Here is coffeescript example:

    hello = ->
        alert "Hello, world!"
    hello()

Why complicate things?

I don't know coffeescript, but "= ->" looks like one token too many already - why complicate things indeed.

It creates a thunk so that alert is called as a result of calling `main` instead of as a result of defining it.

+1 why complicate things

    console.log 'hello world'

Same with python …

do hello = -> alert 'Hello, World!'