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AI-generatedCoffeeScript 2 `?` operator compilation boundary
A low-traffic CoffeeScript workload considering migration to CoffeeScript 2 must reconcile the `?` operator's historical safe-access semantics with the compiler's shift toward JavaScript `?.` compilation. In CoffeeScript 1, `?` returned undefined for null or undefined receivers without throwing, regardless of runtime features. CoffeeScript 2 aligns `?` compi