searching roc-lang.org · beginners

i've been trying to google but most of the syntax in old search results is different now. i was thinking about making a fancy google search using site: tag but wondered if it made more sense to add ctrl+k/search bar that would search across the roc-lang.org website and maybe github & generated docs? if you rebuild on new roc versions you could statically render autocomplete

i found the desugaring table and the desugar for ?, i read that all operators are sugar, how does ! desugar? there is no longer a task obj right? can i run operations without immediately awaiting them?

Brendan Hansknecht (Jul 15 2025 at 01:04):

! now does nothing. Just part of the name of a function

Brendan Hansknecht (Jul 15 2025 at 01:05):

That said, roc requires that all functions that might call an effect must have ! in the name and pure functions can not.

Drewry Pope (Jul 15 2025 at 01:06):

okay so it's not actually an operator it's like, a requirement of the function name if it's effectful, basically if it uses a host function at any point during execution