Reason: Flip list and array syntax to increase JavaScript-familiarity

Created on 20 Jan 2018  路  3Comments  路  Source: reasonml/reason

If the array syntax was:

[1, 2, 3]

And the list syntax was:

[|1, 2, 3|]

... I wonder if that would aide in onboarding JS devs? It seems like arrays will be much more used anyway.

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IME, lists are far more useful in OCaml, because you can't change the size of arrays.

picture strega-nil on 20 Jan 2018
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IME, lists are far more useful in OCaml, because you can't change the size of arrays.

strega-nil picture strega-nil on 20 Jan 2018
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Immutability is a really important concept in reason. Lists are immtable which is why they are chosen over arrays.

cullophid picture cullophid on 21 Jan 2018

Array is only used more when compiling to JS, list is more useful in OCaml.

thangngoc89 picture thangngoc89 on 27 Jan 2018
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