It’s been a while since I finished Get Programming with F# by Isaac Abraham but I haven’t come around to review it, until now. Learning functional programming has been one of my personal goals this year. I started out with Functional Programming in C# by Enrico Buonanno which explains a lot of the concepts of …
I recently watched Mads Torgersen’s video presentation of C# 9 from Microsoft Build and also read his presentation on the same topic titled Welcome to C# 9.0. It is obvious that the C# team is heavily inspired by functional programming and many of the new features have equivalents in F# (where they have existed for …
I recently wrote a blog post on the Option type in F# and how to use it to represent the abscence of a value, for example when looking up a user in a database by trying to match an integer with a user id. If no user with a matching id exists, Option lets you …
In the last post I compared the new Nullable reference types that were introduced in C# 8 with using Option from language-ext, which tries to mimic the functional paradigm approach to representing the abscence of a value. One of the major drawbacks of Option in C# is that there is no built in language-support, instead …