Question

I am very new to coffeescript, and I have been trying to find a way to make publicly accessible class members. If I run the following code:

class cow
  n = 7
  moo: -> 
    alert("moo")

bessie = new cow
alert(bessie.n);

It will show that bessie.n is undefined. The only solution I can find is to make getters and setters like n: -> n and setN: (value) -> n = value. I then must use function calls instead of simple property accesses. This feels cumbersome for a language which sells itself based on syntactic sugar.

Is there something I missed in the documentation that makes it easier to make classes with simple public members? What is the best practice for this?

Answer 1

It’s no different from setting methods.

Just try this

class cow
  n: 7

Doing only

class cow
  n = 7

Will just set private variable inside the class closure.

Use try coffeescript link on http://coffeescript.org/ to see what it compiles to.