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Adventures in F# - Miscellaneous Notes

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I finished the Pluralsight course finally. I’m still studying F# 2 pomodoros a day but lately lost he motivation to publish the notes. In this post I’ll tidy up the notes. In order to maintain my cadence I think I had better develop more stuff instead of covering theoretical subjects.

More Notes

  • Upcasting / Downcasting To upcast :> operator is used. Alternatively the keyword upcast can be used to achieve the same results. It performs a static cast and the cast is determined at runtime.

Downcasting is performed by the :?> operator or downcast keyword.

  • Abstract classes Abstract classes are decorated with **[]**. To mark members **abstract** keyword is used: 
abstract Area : float with get
abstract Perimeter : float  with get
abstract Name : string with get
  • obj is shortcut for System.Object
  • do bindings perform actions when the object is constructed. do bindings are usually put after let bindings so that code in the do binding can execute with a fully initialized object.
  • unit is equivalent of void
  • tabs are not allowed as they can indicate an unknown number of space characters and as spaces and indents matter
  • ‘a means generic. By default a function f is infered as ‘a -> bool meaning it takes a general parameter and returns boolean
  • Providing an incomplete list of functions result in a new function (currying)
  • Getting values from tuples: fst gets the first value, snd gets the second value
  • You can attach elements to a list by using the :: (cons) operator
  • @ operator Concatenates two lists.
  • Exceptions can be thrown using raise function. Reraise function rethrows an exception
  • BigInt (C# and VB) don’t have support for arbitrarily long integers

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