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		jbrooksuk on Dec 10, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Turn any application that uses stdin/stdout into a... It's a Coffee syntax thing. `ws.on 'close', -> ps.kill()` That compiles to: `ws.on('close', function() { return ps.kill(); });`

thu on Dec 10, 2013 [–]

I have never done any Coffee but it looks like arguments are separated by commas, and, in this case, the second argument is a function of no argument (so the left hand side of the arrow is empty).

Edit: it was meant to be a reply to the parent.

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