Coffeescript - how do I check string equality when passing string through a splat? -

i'm having trouble checking whether 2 strings equal when 1 of them passed through splat argument. because coffeescript uses strict comparisons, , because makes copy of arguments when go through splat, can't strings compare without resorting backticks. there better way? here's minimal piece of code demonstrates problem:

check=(arg) ->   if arg == 'foo' "'#{arg}'=='foo'" else "'#{arg}'!='foo'"  emit=(args...) ->   check(args)  console.log(emit('foo')) console.log(check('foo')) 

the output follows:

> coffee mincase.coffee 'foo'!='foo' 'foo'=='foo' 

edit: mu short gave me key, revised working code looks (everything same except emit)

emit=(args...)->   check.apply(null,args) 

when use splat, splat puts splatted arguments array. example:

f = (x...) -> console.log(x instanceof array) f(6) 

will give true in console. fine manual isn't fine in case, doesn't spell out, assumes understand how javascript's arguments object works , leaves out explicit splat puts arguments array part.

so end passing array check , array compared string using coffeescript's == (or javascript's ===) never true.

if want emit check first argument, need so:

emit = (args...) -> check(args[0]) 

demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ambiguous/tbndm/