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Re:OCaml at First Glance by rtlfe on Monday August 29, 2022 @10:18AM (#32638583)
> The article briefly mentions ReasonML, which offers a different syntax which aims to be more familiar to JavaScript programmers but is also likely to be more familiar to most programmers of C-family languages.

One thing I don't like about this is that they've replaced:

> let x = 1 in

with

> let x = 1;

In plain OCaml you only use semicolons on lines that evaluate to unit, so they're a clear indicator that you've done something with side effects. ReasonML loses this useful visual distinction in order to look more like JavaScript.

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Re:OCaml at First Glance by cheriot on Monday August 29, 2022 @01:22PM (#32640872)
Agree. ReasonML threw the baby out with the bathwater. If ever there's a language to not immatate it's Javascript.

Would be interesting to see a something that updated some ocaml quirks, but stayed true to the spirit of the syntax. Ie comments and multiply but not ;

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