feat: document ref
for self-referencing #960
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I encountered a problem with valid JS code that was hard to translate into rescript - the problem is discussed here in the forum - it turned out the
ref
can help with self-referencing.I promised to add this trick to the documentation, so here it is. Feel free to criticize 😸
I currently added it just to the v11 docs, once this passes validation, I will copy that into other versions as well. I assume it is useful for all versions where mutable let assignment exists?
Here is how it renders