Some notes on Coffeescript notation

coffeescript knowhow

class Animal

  constructor: (name) ->
    # @name is an instance property
    @name = name

  # This is an object function
  # This function can be accessed with @getSomething() from the class itself
  getSomething: -> return "hello"

  # This is a class function
  # This function can be accessed with Anmial.getSomethingElse() from the class itself
  @getSomethingElse: -> return "hello"


class Test
  # this is a class variable (its stored in prototype)
  blubb: "bla"

  constructor: ->
    @blubb = "bazinga"
  
  b = new Test
  alert(b.blubb) # "bazinga"

  b.blubb = "new value"
  alert(b.blubb) # "new value"
        
  c = new Test
  alert(c.blubb) # "bazinga"