Description
https://ocaml.org/learn/tutorials/guidelines.html has several recommendations on formatting match patterns, but notably lacks any guidance on the following: when using more than one pattern that both share the same ->, should the second | be indented in relation to the first (to make it obvious that the first lacks ->) or should the | be aligned?
Visually, this is the difference between:
List.iter (
function
| A -> x
| B
| C -> y
| D -> z
) list
and:
List.iter (
function
| A -> x
| B
| C -> y
| D -> z
) list
emacs-tuareg-2.0.10-5.fc29.noarch, as shipped on Fedora, favors indentation of the secondary patterns (the latter style), although that gets in my way when editing a project that favors the style of always aligning the | (the first style). If the style guide were to state a preference for one way or the other, then the tuareg defaults could match that style (whether or not tuareg also adds a user customization to make it easier to change between the two styles).