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...Don't have hanging conditionals... One of the nice things about F#'s pattern-matching is that it will not allow you to do this. It's amazing the number of b

...Don't have hanging conditionals... One of the nice things about F#'s pattern-matching is that it will not allow you to do this. It's amazing the number of bugs you can avoid like this.

chc 15y ago
From what I've seen, F# seems like a really nice language. It looks like the best of the MLs. If only it weren't so tied to the Microsoft stack and seemingly relegated to a supporting role for C#.
- mmavnn 15y ago
  It has active Mono support as well (even from inside MS). The Monodevelop support is pretty good too. I code in F# on Ubuntu regularly.
- shanselman 15y ago
  The whole of F# is open source AFAIK. Used on Linux and in schools a lot.
oconnor0 15y ago
What are you pattern-matching on? At least in OCaml you can do "if (test) then a else b", and I assume that holds for F#. Are you talking about "if (test) then a" without the "else b" clause? Because, while I agree that using only "if-then" introduces the potential for many bugs, the error talked about wasn't caused by that.