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4. Working Effectively with Collection Functions

Kit Eason1 
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Farnham, Surrey, UK
 

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

—Patti Smith, Musician

Collection functions are central to productive F# coding. Trying to code without them is as crazy as trying to play the guitar without learning chords. Though you don’t need to know all the chords to be a decent guitarist, you do need the basic ones, and to be able to use them instinctively. The same is true for using collection functions when coding in F#.

But how to start with this seemingly mountainous task? There are about 70 collection functions in the Array ...

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