Was there a sale on operators when F# was built?

[Chris Maunder]

Symbol and Operator Reference (F#) | Microsoft Docs[^] I count 118 operators and symbols. If that doesn't deserve a volume discount I don't know what does.

cheers Chris Maunder

[CPallini]

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I don't know what does.

A Cryptuntional Language? Haskell Operators and other Lexical Notation[^]. Going functional, eh? :thumbsup:

[Eric Lynch]

My personal favorite, from the "Symbol and Operator Reference" page, is...

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``...`` | No more information available. | Delimits an identifier that would otherwise not be a legal identifier, such as a language keyword.

Seriously? What!?

[Richard Deeming]

I'd guess it serves a similar purpose to putting @ in front of a variable name in C#: @ (C# Reference) | Microsoft Docs[^] In other words, something that should be avoided whenever possible. :)

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[PIEBALDconsult]

Well, DEVOPS are a hot commodity these days.

[Gary Wheeler]

My personal favorite:

(|...|)                  Active patterns                  Delimits an active pattern; also called banana clips

What. The. Fuck. are banana clips?

Software Zen: delete this;

[Brisingr Aerowing]

Apparently they are a high-capacity magazine for automatic weapons that resemble a banana (according to a quick Google).

What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

[Stuart Dootson]

And remember, if that's not enough, you can make your own as well

Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

[ZevSpitz]

Does that mean if I use F# I'll have more problems than if I use regular expressions?

[Gary Wheeler]

Ah. I consider myself abashed for not having G'ed it on my own.

Software Zen: delete this;

[Gary Wheeler]

If you use regular expressions to solve a problem, you now have two problems. If you use F#, the number of problems is determined by F(i), where i is the number of operators you've used and F is the Fibonacci sequence.

Software Zen: delete this;

[obermd]

APL was easier to read! :doh: