Beware: Coffeescript "in" is not the Javascript "in"

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The Javascript in operator does what Hash#has_key? does in Ruby: Return whether an object has a property.
However, Coffeescript has its own in operator that checks for array inclusion. To check whether an object has a property, use of:

Javascript

'name' in {name: 'Horst'} # => true

Coffeescript

# wrong
'name' in {name: 'Horst'} # => false

# correct
'name' of {name: 'Horst'} # => true
1 in [1,2,3] # => true

True story.

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Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2015-02-18 13:03)