Amin @fellowapp

This would be a huge improvement. One of the main reasons I use CoffeeScript over es6 is readability. A yaml-like extension to the object notation would be amazing.

If people keep making the request, maybe it's not such a bad idea? Adding new capabilities and syntax sugars is one of the best ways to help with ensuring the...

What's the thought on taking advantage of the semicolon bug I mentioned earlier?

I agree it's an ugly character, but it _does_ make sense semantically. If i'm in the context of any block, a semicolon signifies the end of each item in said...

Just that it would be very difficult to get right within coffeescript. e.g. the following is currently valid syntax and means something _completely_ different: ```coffeescript a = - b ```

What about preserving the existing behaviour, while also allowing you to explicitly define a variable at the block level without hoisting it to the top (i.e. enable the use of...

If those are the only options then let's please not break backwards compatibility... Block scoping wouldn't actually enable you to do anything you can't currently accomplish with function scoping...

Any chance this can be merged? It's literally a 1 liner...

+1 please upload to pypi!