Re: [Caml-list] ReasonML concrete syntax

[Yawar Amin <yawar.amin@gmail.com>]

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Hi Bob,

On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Robert Muller <robert.muller2@gmail.com>
wrote:

> [...]
> As I understand it, the OCaml community isn't paying much attention to the
> Reason design process. That process is heavily influenced by JS so there
> are ample opportunities for unrepairable mistakes.
>

You have a misunderstanding on this matter. The Reason team contains some
very seasoned OCaml hackers. The new syntax of version 3 was mostly
designed (IIUC) and implemented by the maintainer of Merlin. These are not
script kiddies trying to push JavaScript sensibilities everywhere. These
are OCaml people who are trying very carefully to design a syntax that
appeals to a massive number of people.

Also, you have another misunderstanding about reparability. One of the key
components of the Reason toolkit is refmt, the reformatting tool, which
they use to automatically and seamlesly upgrade users to the new syntax. In
fact this is how they pulled off the version 2 -> version 3 syntax
upgrade--they provided a shell script wrapper with the correct invocation
to do the syntax change.

So you see, the Reason project has made it so it can easily back out of
mistakes. They've thought about this very carefully. I repeat my invitation
to you to come and talk to them in their chat server, discord.gg/reasonml .
Perhaps that will give you some reassurance.

Regards,

Yawar

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