You can specify a function which can take in a numeric value with a generic unit of measure easily enough: Similarly, you can also specify a discriminated union whose clauses can be of a numeric value with a generic unit of measure, like this:

Peculiarly I couldn’t find any documented way to create a type extension for a generic array, ‘a [ ], turns out you need to use backtick marks ( ‘ ) around the square brackets in order to do that:

This article is an invitation to a number of F# events at the end of summer and during autumn. Aside from F# trainings in New York and London, I will be also doing an F# tutorial at CUFP in Copenhagen.

Thanks to Scott Hanselman, I’m now writing this post with Windows Live Writer 2012.  For all of its miscues over the last couple of years, every now and again, Microsoft comes up with some modest piece of software which really hits it out of the park.  Live Writer is one such piece of software and [...]

Note: Don’t forget to check out Benchmarks page to see the latest round up of binary and JSON serializers. Following on from my previous test, I have now included JsonFx and as well as the Json.Net BSON serializer in the mix to see how they match up. The results (in milliseconds) as well as the [...]