Single arg pattern matching with the fun operator

Reasonml has pattern matching in specific syntaxes and one of those syntaxes is the fun operator which helps you define multiple patterns for single argument functions.

let something = 
  fun
  | "hello" => "world"
  | "busta" => "rhymes"
  | x => "something else"

when called:

something("hello")
/* results in "world" */

This doesn't work for multiple arguments however, so when you see something like this:

let add =
  fun
  | (1, 1) => 3
  | (x, y) => x + y;

just remember that the single argument in this case is a tuple, called like this add((1, 3)).

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