F# for Quantitative Finance

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input are shown as follows: "First we set a flag in the constructor, WorkerSupportsCancellation = true, then we check a flag every time we iterate the calculation."

A block of code is set as follows:

let rec getSecondLastElement = function
        | head :: tail :: [] -> head
        | head :: tail -> getSecondLastElement tail

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

SocketConnectPort=9878 ...