Coffeescript passing arguments in a function in nodejs app?

Question

In javascript I can have a route in my nodejs app that work like this:

exports.hasVote(a,b) = function(err, res) {
    res(true)
}

Problem is when I try to do the same in coffeescript (I moved to coffeescript...). So I replaced the function above with this one:

exports.hasVote(a, b) = (err, res) ->
  res true

When I run the app I get this error:

error: unexpected =

How can I accomplish this in coffeescript and have it work just like it used to in javascript?

Fresheyeball · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-20 23:53:26Z

1

You can't do that because you can't do it in JavaScript either. Coffee-script is just catching it at a higher level.

   foo() = anyThing

is not valid JavaScript (and therefore not valid CoffeeScript) because you can not assign a value to an invocation.

answered Jan 20, 2014 at 23:53

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