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Both the blog post and the release notes remark that the change to function definition and application syntax would get a lot of attention, but neither of them

by djur 9y ago

Both the blog post and the release notes remark that the change to function definition and application syntax would get a lot of attention, but neither of them even hint at a reason for such a significant change. The PRs implementing the change don't seem to provide a rationale, either. Does anyone have more background as to why this change was made?

dsissitka 9y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/reasonml/comments/6v2olv/new_syntax_after_pr_1299/dly4aa7/ https://www.reddit.com/r/reasonml/comments/6v2olv/new_syntax... https://github.com/facebook/reason/pull/1299#issuecomment-323335204 https://github.com/facebook/reason/pull/1299#issuecomment-32...
- rattray 9y ago
  Tldr?
  - scottmf 9y ago
    I believe the syntax is still a work in progress, but the long term goal seems to be replacing JavaScript/winning over JS devs with a familiar syntax.
    - platz 9y ago
      Apparently devs don't understand what a type constructor is. And the Reddit is some kind of cult of personality with a dude in a hat.
      - dmitriid 9y ago
        > Apparently devs don't understand what a type constructor is. No, they don't. No, they don't care.
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k__ 9y ago
To make it look more like JavaScript. OCaml looks rather foreign to the regular JS dev and the last versions of Reason looked more like JS, but still had a few strange parts.