Hi twok,

this must rank as the most often ignored question on the hub - perhaps because it is a feature request rather than a technical question.

Currently there has been no indication from the F# team that interactive scripting exposed as an API is on the roadmap. It breaks the licence to redistribute FSharp.Compiler.dll for any commercial purpose - so hosting F# scripts in your application is illegal!

Furthermore it has recently been revealed that the F# compiler is NOT going to be in the .NET Framework 4 - missing the huge opportunity that this would have presented to (at least) allow scripting in applications targeted at .NET 4.

Perhaps the F# website should amend the text so:

--“The F# distribution gives you an interactive scripting console like Python and other languages”
F# website

which would remove the ambiguity that the language and libraries support interactive scripting.

Personally I've been disappointed that this feature doesn't seem high on the team's agenda as the promise of a succinct statically typed functional language in a interactive environment has not been fulfilled (yet!)

regards,

Danny