As you saw in Chapter 3, you can use F# for pure functional programming. However, some issues, most notably I/O, are almost impossible to address without some kind of state change. F# does not require that you program in a stateless fashion. It allows you to use mutable identifiers whose values can change over time. F# also has other constructs that support imperative programming. You saw some in Chapter 3. Any example that wrote to the console included a few lines of imperative code alongside functional code. In this chapter, you’ll explore these ...
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Robert Pickering and Kit Eason, Beginning F# 4.0, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1374-2_4
4. Imperative Programming
Robert Pickering1 and Kit Eason
(1)St. Germain-En-Laye, France
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