OCaml – Compiling Mini-ML to JavaScript

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	OCaml – Compiling Mini-ML to JavaScript (lexicallyscoped.com)
	40 points by fredyr 4011 days ago

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zeckalpha 4010 days ago

Awesome! This should demonstrate to the masses how easy it is to make language transpilers in ML family languages. Can't get much simpler than that.

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simplify 4010 days ago

For representing `if` statements in JavaScript, what was the reasoning for using a function over a ternary?

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fredyr 4010 days ago

I changed from the ternary representation to the function, because I didn't think the generated code was very readable. In hindsight I'm not sure it's that much improvement. From a performance view it's probably worse off.

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zeckalpha 4010 days ago

Rule 1: Do not make assumptions about JavaScript performance.

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