CHAPTER 7

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Encapsulating and Organizing Your Code

Organizing code and making it available for people and programs to use is a key part of best using F#. In this book, you’ve already seen many of the constructs to help you do this: functions, objects, type definitions, modules, namespaces, and assemblies. In some cases, however, you’ve encountered these only peripherally when using the libraries that come with F#. This chapter will cover these constructs from the perspective of code organization and encapsulation.

Organizing code can involve four distinct activities:

  • Organizing code into sensible entities using namespaces, types, and modules. ...

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