Primitives

Quick overview: Primitives

These are the built in types that can be used to represent information and build more complex types.

Strings

Quick overview: Strings

Create a string using double quotes:

let s = "Hello World!";

Concatenate strings using the ++ operator:

let s = "Hello " ++ "World!";

More String functions can be found in standard libraries:

• Native: module String
• BuckleScript: module Js.String

let s = String.trim(" extra whitespace\n");
/* "extra whitespace" */
let s = String.concat("\n", ["line 1", "line 2"]);
/* "Line 1\nLine 2" */
let s = String.sub("Hello World!", 6, 5);
/* "World" */

Char

Create a char using single quotes:

let c = 'a';

Access the char at an index using string.[index]:

let c = "Hello".[1];
/* 'e' */

Convert char to string:

let s = String.make(1, 'c');
/* "c" */
let charArray = [| 'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o' |];
let s = String.init(5, i => charArray[i]);
/* "Hello" */

Integer

Quick overview: Numbers

Integers are whole numbers. Their bit-size depends on the platform.

let x = 23;
let x = -23;

Standard operations include +, -, *, /, mod:

let x = 23 + 1 - 7 * 2 / 5;
let x = 13 mod 2;

Integer literals

Different radix literals can be created using prefixes 0x, 0o, 0b:

let decimal = 11256099;
let hex = 0xABC123;
let octal = 0o52740443;
let binary = 0b101010111100000100100011;

Literals can be broken up using the _ character which will be ignored:

let trillion = 1_000_000_000_000;

Bitwise operations

Use infix functions: land, lor, lxor, lnot, lsl, lsr, asr from module Pervasives

let x = 0b1010 lor 0b1100;
/* 0b1110, 14 */

Many bit tricks can be found here: bithacks

let isPowerOfTwo = x => {
 x !== 0 && x land (x - 1) === 0
};

Float

Quick overview: Numbers

Floats are 64-bit numbers that may have a decimal. They follow the IEEE 754 standard.

let x = 23.0;
let x = 23.;
let x = -23.0;

Standard operations include +., -., *., /., **:

let x = 3.0 +. 1.0 -. 7.0 *. 2.0 /. 5.0;
/* Exponentiation */
let x = 2.0 ** 3.0;

Boolean

Quick overview: Boolean

Reason supports a normal set of boolean and logical operations:

• Boolean operations: !, &&, ||
• Comparison: >, <, >=, <=
• Reference equality: ===, !==
• Structural equality: ==, !=

let x = true;
let y = !true;
let z = x && y || false;