F# Deep Dives

Appendix. F# walkthrough: looking under the covers

Tomas Petricek

The purpose of this book is not to teach you F# from scratch. There are many other books that do that, including our own Real-World Functional Programming (Manning, 2009). Instead, this book is a collection of interesting uses of F# written by experts from the industry who are using F# to write production code and who often have unique experience that’s worth sharing.

Even after using F# for some time, many people, myself included, may be surprised by some aspect of F# or a combination of features that they haven’t seen before. In this appendix, we’ll walk through some of the F# basics, but we’ll also look at them from a more interesting perspective. You’ll learn how they fit together ...