It’s possible to use function composition and modify the type of value returned.  Consider the following equation: 1/4x2 I might encode the function to calculate this like so: let square x = x * x let recip x = 1.0/x  //If this is an int division it will always round to 0 if x is […]

A few of us from Quicken had attended LambdaJam in Chicago.  By the way, it was a great conference–big kudos to Alex Miller. Anyway, at that conference we met Mathias Brandewinder, a Microsoft F# MVP from San Francisco.  Some of the guys started talking to Mathias about visiting us here in Motown to spread the […]

About a month ago, FSharp.Data  released version 1.1.9, which contains some very nice improvements – you can find them listed on Gustavo Guerra’s blog. I was particularly excited by the changes made to the CSV Type Provider, because they make my life digging through datasets even simpler, but couldn’t find the time to write about it, because of my recent cross-country peregrinations. Now that I am back, let’s talk about why this update made me so happy, with a concrete example. My latest week-end project [...]

Hot on the heels of making my first game with Dart and StageXL at the London GameCraft 2013, I decided to strike whilst the iron’s hot and make a mini-game featuring characters from our MMORPG Here Be Monsters.   The result, is a whack-a-mole style game where the antagonist is ‘Meng the Terrible’ from the [...]

Even though tuples, records and discriminated unions are reference types, they all have the built-in equality properties you would expect in a value type.  For example: > let a = (1,’a');; val a : int * char = (1, ‘a’) > let b = (1,’a');; val b : int * char = (1, ‘a’) > a […]