reasonml / reasonml/reason

refmt pushes pipe inside else branch

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Description

Consider:

if (true) {
  false
} else {
  true
} |> Js.log;

After refmted, this becomes:

if (true) {
  false
} else {
  true |> Js.log;
}

which is certainly not what I want.

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Research direction

Reproduce the reported example with refmt and compare the input and formatted output around the pipe after the else branch. Locate the formatter entry point responsible for conditional expressions, add regression coverage for this snippet, and verify that the pipe remains outside the else branch.

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Assessment

Tech stack
ocaml
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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