Is there a way to get the name of variant in type

1

Is there a method to return the name instead of a number for the tag?

For example:

type result =
  | Ok
  | Error

Given a variable of type result, is there a way to print “Ok” or “Error” instead of “0” or “1” like it does by default?

2

Just tried it with rescript v. 11 (currently in alpha stage). It will print “Ok” and “Error” instead of 0 and 1.

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3

polymorphic variants compile to more JS-friendly values

in

type result = [#ok | #error]

#ok compiles to “ok” and #error compiles to “error”

but if you wanna stick with regular variants you could also just write a function that converts them like

let result_to_string = result => switch result {
| Ok => "Ok"
| Error => "Error"
}
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4

That’s nice, I tried and it worked a treat.
Where can I report bugs in ReScript 11 alpha 6?

5

AFAIK Rescript compilers’ GitHub repository should be used to report any issue regarding rescript: