Private members in CoffeeScript?

Question

Does somebody know how to make private, non-static members in CoffeeScript? Currently I\'m doing this, which just uses a public variable starting with an underscore to clari

Answer 1

I'd like to show something even fancier

class Thing extends EventEmitter
  constructor: ( nm) ->
    _name = nm
    Object.defineProperty @, 'name',
      get: ->
        _name
      set: (val) ->
        _name = val
      enumerable: true
      configurable: true

Now you can do

t = new Thing( 'Dropin')
#  members can be accessed like properties with the protection from getter/setter functions!
t.name = 'Dragout'  
console.log t.name
# no way to access the private member
console.log t._name