Can't create a regex that starts with =

[rstacruz]

$ coffee
coffee> re = /=/
Error: In repl, Parse error on line 1: Unexpected 'COMPOUND_ASSIGN'

CoffeeScript v1.1.0, NodeJS v0.4.7, Mac OSX 10.6.7

[rstacruz]

This can be worked around with:

re = /\=/

I encountered this issue while trying to make Zepto work with js2coffee.

[mpolden]

I encountered this issue as well. It's inconsistent with regular JS.

coffee> 'foo = foo'.replace /=.*/, 'bar'
Error: In repl, Parse error on line 1: Unexpected '.'
    at Object.parseError (/opt/node-v0.6.19/lib/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/parser.js:477:11)
    at Object.parse (/opt/node-v0.6.19/lib/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/parser.js:554:22)
    at /opt/node-v0.6.19/lib/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/coffee-script.js:43:20
    at Object.eval (/opt/node-v0.6.19/lib/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/coffee-script.js:140:10)
    at Interface.<anonymous> (/opt/node-v0.6.19/lib/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/repl.js:131:40)
    at Interface.emit (events.js:67:17)
    at Interface._onLine (readline.js:162:10)
    at Interface._line (readline.js:426:8)
    at Interface._ttyWrite (readline.js:603:14)
    at ReadStream.<anonymous> (readline.js:82:12)

> 'foo = foo'.replace(/=.*/, 'bar')
'foo bar'

$ coffee -v
CoffeeScript version 1.3.3
$ node -v
v0.6.19

[lydell]

Fixed by #3782.