OCaml – Compiling Mini-ML to JavaScript

OCaml – Compiling Mini-ML to JavaScript(lexicallyscoped.com)

40 points by fredyr 11 years ago | 4 comments

zeckalpha 11 years 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.

simplify 11 years ago |

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

fredyr 11 years 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.

zeckalpha 11 years ago | | |

Rule 1: Do not make assumptions about JavaScript performance.