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		jashkenas on Sept 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability Just FYI, using standalone `@` isn't considered to be good CoffeeScript style. It's discouraged for this very reason -- just use `this` instead. The reason why it works in the first place is for consistency ... in every other context, you can use an `@` to replace a `this` or `this.`.

viseztrance on Sept 17, 2012 [–]

FYI, I usually use this instead of @ myself, but in this case I used @ to empathize a grander issue.

And it's not like there's a warning about it being removed on coffeescript.org where it's being mentioned as an alias for this in the first place.

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