FSharp Functional Programming

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F# Functional Programming Identifiers Keywords Literals Values and Functions Scope Recursion Anonymous Functions Operators Lists List Comprehensions Control Flow Types and Type Inference Pattern Matching Defining Types Exception Handling Lazy Evaluation Summary

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© 2007 Robert Pickering

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F# Functional Programming (FP)

You saw in Chapter 1 that pure functional programming treats functions as values, relies on recursion for looping, and does not allow changes to state. In this chapter, you’ll survey the major language constructs of F# that support the functional programming paradigm.