>There’s an easy way to solve this: add an end if delimiter. Again: terseness bites. I think this is the second frontpage post in a single week with someone ta

>There’s an easy way to solve this: add an end if delimiter. Again: terseness bites. I think this is the second frontpage post in a single week with someone talking about this exact thing, going on about how OCaml doesn't have braces or block-end signifiers....somehow completely missing `begin`...`end`, which has been part of the language since like forever? Just like with the last post, let's look at this post's example: let foo _ = if true then print_endline "Hello, world!"; true else false Yeah, I'm a little surprised that this doesn't work, actually, since I would assume that it would parse the if-branch until it gets an expression, but the compiler (and OCamlFormat, for what it's worth) interprets this code like this (and the auto-formatting done by ocamlformat makes it clear what's going on -- maybe consider hooking that up as an on-save action in your editor): let foo _ = if true then print_endline "Hello, world!"; true else false (which I discovered by just copy-pasting it directly into https://try.ocamlpro.com https://try.ocamlpro.com, which auto-formatted the code exactly like that for me). Basically "(if true then print); true" rather than "if true then (print; true)" Getting back to my original point, the code can easily be fixed by using `begin` and `end`: let foo _ = if true then begin print_endline "Hello, world!"; true end else false OCaml _does_ have braces, like in the "more-solid-feeling" languages the author describes. They're just named "begin" and "end" instead of "{" and "}", same as in Ruby or Elixir or Pascal or even Austral (which is the author's own language). This is, admittedly, more of a pain for dropping in a quick debug statement than what the author found: let foo _ = if true then let _ = print_endline "Hello, world!" in true else false ...which honestly, for the "quickly add a print-debug line" case, doesn't seem like a problem?