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Boolean

A boolean has the type bool and can be either true or false. Common operations:

  • &&: logical and

  • ||: logical or

  • !: logical not.

  • <=, >=, <, >

  • ==: structural equal, compares data structures deeply: (1, 2) == (1, 2) is true. Convenient, but use with caution

  • ===: referential equal, compares shallowly. (1, 2) === (1, 2) is false. let myTuple = (1, 2); myTuple === myTuple is true.

  • !=: structural unequal

  • !==: referential unequal

Usage

Note: Reason/Bucklescript true and false compile to JS true and false since Bucklescript 3.0. Before that release you had to use Js.to_bool and Js.Boolean.to_js_boolean but thankfully this is no longer the case!

Tips & Tricks

Use structural equal tastefully. It's convenient, but might accidentally make you compare two deeply nested data structures and incur a big performance hit. It's also not always clear what counts as "equal". For example, is a piece of data foo equal to a lazy foo? Ideally, it'd have been pluggable. Future changes are coming to make this possible and reliable; if you're interested, check modular implicit.