(I can’t respond to your other comment) Ah I see, you’re saying that the construction of a list in F# mandates a lambda, thereby reducing one possible point of

(I can’t respond to your other comment) Ah I see, you’re saying that the construction of a list in F# mandates a lambda, thereby reducing one possible point of confusion. I could agree with that. But then it comes at a cost of comfort: [0]*4 has less boilerplate than the F# version. So it comes down to trade-offs again.