Why reasonml does not uses semicolons in pattern matching with one expression like here
switch (inter) {
| Interval(low, high) => printf(“Interval %d - %d”, low, high)
| Empty => print_string(“Empty interval”)
};
But forces its use here
if (env1) {
Ok; } else {Nothing;
};
Personally I think semicolon in reason does not make sense, it makes sense in OCaml and Rust where its use is to finish a sentence with side effect, but in reason basically you have to put them kinda everywhere
Which version of BuckleScript are you using? Omission of semi-colons shouldn’t throw errors thanks to refmt. Maybe you need to update your bs-platform to the latest version. You can see in this repl that you can omit the semi-colons.
Maybe one reason the way semi-colons are used in Reason is to make it familiar for developers with Javascript background? This excerpt from Cheng Lou’s keynote at ReasonConf gives a 30 seconds explanation on this matter.
if (env1) { Ok; } would parse fine without the semicolon, but it prints with one to make it easier to add further expressions to the block.