Update 2012/08/23: Thanks for the suggestion from Jizugu in the comments, I’ve updated the post to show you his approach to calling the explicit operator in a clean and elegant way. In C#, you can define an explicit operator for your type using the explicit keyword: You can define an explicit operator like the …
You can specify a function which can take in a numeric value with a generic unit of measure easily enough: Similarly, you can also specify a discriminated union whose clauses can be of a numeric value with a generic unit of measure, like this:
Peculiarly I couldn’t find any documented way to create a type extension for a generic array, ‘a [ ], turns out you need to use backtick marks ( ` ) around the square brackets in order to do that:
Note: Don’t forget to check out Benchmarks page to see the latest round up of binary and JSON serializers. Following on from my previous test, I have now included JsonFx and as well as the Json.Net BSON serializer in the mix to see how they match up. The results (in milliseconds) as well as the …
Related Posts Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Here I will look at how some commonly used functions in F#’s List module might be translated to Erlang using Erlang’s equivalent – the lists module. List.append F#: let newList = List.append [ 1..5 ] [ 6..10 ] Erlang: NewList = lists:append([ 1, 2, 3, …
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Related Posts Part 1 Part 2 Part 4 Throwing Exceptions In F#, you can define a custom exception type by creating a type that inherit from System.Exception or using the lightweight exception syntax to define them with the same syntax as discriminated unions. You can throw exceptions in F# using the raise keyword or …
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Related Posts Part 1 Part 3 Part 4 if-else In F#, if-else if-else control flow is expressed in the form if Exp then Exp elif Exp then Exp else Exp: let f n = if n = 42 then printfn "%d is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe …
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Brushing up on Erlang again having spent so much time with F# since I last looked at Erlang, it’s startling how much parallels I see between the two languages in terms of features and syntax, and I’m sure it’s no coincidence To help myself and other F# programmers who’re curious about Erlang get started more …
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Just a quick note to mention that I’ll be speaking to the F#unctional Londoners on Thursday, 28th Jun about using .Net in the social gaming space which is usually dominated by PHP. In this session I’ll share some insight into how we at GameSys uses a polyglot stack evolving around .Net to build our games …
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