Questions tagged [f#]
F# is a succinct, expressive, and efficient functional and object-oriented language for .NET
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Printing a table
I have this recursive function that I made which prints a table, but I really think my current solution is really ugly. Does anyone have an idea as to how I can improve my solution?
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F# Insertion sort
I made a simple insertion sort in F#, it uses a tail recursive shift function that attempts to shift an element in a list until it is in the right order. Would like ...
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Doing an ROP style bind for two functions on the same input in a pipeline
I am working on understanding Railway Oriented Programming (Scott Wlaschin style) in F#. In my example I want to create a pipeline which does some calculation, applies two different functions to the ...
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Implement total savings function on a record type
the TotalSavings() function on the record below has a code smell that I can't exactly detail. Is there a more readable alternative for implementing this function on a record type?
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Streaming a Pin functionally(ish)
Earlier today I wrote a question (Validating a StreamingPin) and I thought it was a good idea (apparently I was the only one who thought so, but whatever), so I proceeded further with it and developed ...
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Grand Chess domain model and helper functions
So I am trying to write, essentially from a blank slate, a program that plays Grand Chess. In short, it is a chess variant that is played with two extra pieces, on a 10x10 board, no castling, and ...
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Battleship Game
Inspired by this question, I went on with the following version. My goal was to focus on pure functions, to avoid mutable variables and to be strictly functional.
I have ignored the computer player ...
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hl7 parser with fparsec
I have a little experience working with .hl7 data (format for transmitting health data), so I decided to try and write an .hl7 parser using fparsec.
A standard .hl7 segment is a single line with:
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You can't sink me
Here is a Battlehips game in F#. Now, before you start jumping up and down on my code, please understand that, for all its awesomeness, F# has a serious limitation: Its compilation is linear, and the ...
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Directory listing, sorting and filtering in F#
Here is my first try at F#. My only functional experience is from JS.
This program takes a path as an argument and presents the user with numbered subdirs in that path. The user then selects one of ...
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Return total balance from unsorted purchase items that may have specials
This is in reference to the following kata:
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F# Simple Tree evaluation
I'm currently trying to learn the idiomatic way to write F# code. The code simulates a basic calculator with only binary plus, minus and unary minus.
I'd like to know if there is a better way to ...
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Unit test for allowable checkers moves
Is pattern matching within a unit test a code smell?
Do I really need to throw an exception just for my test to fail if the function under test receives invalid arguments (i.e. not Succeeded case ...
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Idiomatic F# unit test using xunit and unquote
I'm writing some unit tests for testing C# code but I'm using F# and Unquote for the first time for the unit tests and would like some input as to how I might make the tests more 'f-sharpier' to take ...
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Checkers moves using union types
How do I refactor common code with different union types?
I'm still struggling with refactoring F# code with different types but same behavior.
I have the following function that I would like to ...
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TCPListener server to discover clients on a network
I am currently writing a program to sync files (music, photos, etc) from my PC to an Android device. In order to do this, I have 2 application: one that is running on my PC, and one that shall be ...
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Card combination finder in F#
I have been adding and tinkering a bit with the code from my Baloot tally finder. I updated the code a bit and factored a new things, but for this post I am trying different stuff: to detect whether ...
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Async.sequence implementation
I have a simple implementation for "Async.sequence" (the name came from here), but I would like someone to review it for performance, tail call optimization, and ...
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Recursively traverse directory tree and print all files
I want to build a small console program, that for given directory, will print (for now) all files inside that tree.
Here is an F# script that I came up with:
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F# function to concatenate some DSL scripts with indentation
I'm rather new to F# and functional programming. I wrote the following method to concatenate some custom dsl scripts. The function works are expected without errors. I wanted to know if there was a ...
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Recursive implementation of a zip function in F#
I'm learning F# from Tomas Petricek's "Real-World Functional Programming" book. As suggested at one point in the book, I started implementing a zip function using a ...
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Tally Calculator for Baloot in F#
This is a tally calculator for the Saudi card game Baloot. As in, they're a set of functions so that the user would provide their winnings at the end of a round (card captured, projects declared, etc) ...
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Divide number by factors
I'm learning F#.
The code below gets a number e.g. 100 and list of factors and should divide that number by the factors without any rest. (There is an actual code I've got in C#, but this is F# port).
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K-Means Clustering - F# Learning Challenge
Inspired by this blog I went on implementing my own version as a F# learning challenge. It turned out to be quite different than the original (but somewhat faster for large samples).
The first code ...
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IsImageUrl extension method written in F#
I'm a newbie to F# and so I've written a small extension method library to practice the language. The extension method attempts to determine if a url string is for an image. I wrote the code as an ...
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Swap even/odd characters
I wrote some code to solve this problem https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/string-o-permute which basically states: take an even length string and swap all the even indexed characters. For example ...
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Get a stock quote from a web page using F#
I want to extract a price for a single index fund, the price of which is available on dynamic web pages.
Being new to this, my original idea was to download the single page of static HTML and get ...
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Web crawler in F#
I have been writing a web crawler in F# that downloads pages with stylesheets and scripts.
Can somebody give me suggestions on improving this code, please?
Would appreciate any feedback that could ...
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NFA and DFA implementation
Can you review my F# code and point out some insights about it?
What I want to know, in order of relevance:
Avoid so much common code between DFA and NFA. I want to make something more generic, ...
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Transforming XML to HTML with XSLT
I'm still learning from designing with types non strings by Scott Wlaschin.
For my project I transform some XML to HTML with xslt.
Because every filename can have side effects, they are stored in ...
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My Brainfuck interpreter in F#
I'm very new to functional world. I've written a simple brainfuck interpreter as my first F# program.
What I would like to know:
Am I using the right data structure for each situation?
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Compare performance of simple addition on one to many cores
I read recently that ENIAC originally was capable of 5000 additions per second. Naturally, I had to test my own laptop's capabilities and this became an instructive experiment in F#, which I suck at.
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Console input prompt loop in F#
I'm learning F#, starting with baby steps. Is there a way to write this code in a more succint way, while keeping the same semantics? Maybe by using a Seq or ...
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Parsing .PLY file using F#
I'm fairly new to F# and have written a program to parse PLY files - this is however done in an imperative way with mutable values and as far as I know that should be avoided in functional languages.
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Breaking lists into subgroups in F#
I'm starting to play with F# to do some data parsing and I was able to create a function to group an array of string into sub groups. The code looks like this:
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Anagram finder in F#
I've been learning F# for a month or so and I'm wondering how good my "functional" aspect of coding is. When I first started, I did this using an iterative approach with a lot of <- and mutables ...
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SqlDataConnection update method
I'm using Microsoft's SqlDataConnection type provider. However, the only way I've seen to update a row in the database is to use something similar to this where it updates mutable values:
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Heightmap generation using midpoint displacement
I am writing a program to generate a height map following the midpoint displacement algorithm (somewhat similar to diamond-square).
I'm at the point where I have a recursive program that paints the ...
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Blocking Memory Queue
This is a FIFO blocking memory queue in F# to be used as a component in a logging library.
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Unit testing F# code without using an existing test library (MSTest, xUnit, etc.)
I know I can probably use MSTest (I'm under Linux without an IDE so maybe not?) or another unit testing library, but for a small project I decided to write my own unit tests without resorting to a ...
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Converting height map bitmap to json
This is my first F# program.
It's a command line utility that takes a parameter containing a path to an height map bitmap and prints out this height map converted to JSON format.
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FizzBuzzWoof in F#
I'm learning F#, and have challenged myself to write a good functional implementation of FizzBuzzWoof. (The difference from "standard" FizzBuzz is that any number that either is divisible by or ...
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Dijkstra algorithm implementation in F#
I'm trying to implement Dijkstra algorithm in F# for finding the shortest path in a undirected tree using a heap.
I've used the type PriorityQueue found here and the code can be found here.
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F# cache manager
This is a port of a C# cache manager we use to F#. This is my first F# code, and I've tried to make it as idiomatic as possible. I would appreciate input on style, performance considerations,...
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Factory pattern in F# for a web scraper
I'm trying to learn F# by creating a little web scraper that will do custom scraping based on the url domain. For this, I need to create and select the correct kind of scraper. I figure I would use a ...
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Project Euler Q7 - 10001st prime
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By listing the first six prime numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13, we can see that the 6th prime is 13.
What is the 10001st prime number?
This is my second attempt at the ...
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Create a collection of binaries with random set positions
I would like to create a collection of binaries with n set bits and total length should be between n and 31; also those set bits ...
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Project Euler Q2 - Sum of even Fibonacci numbers
I'm very new at F#, and am using Project Euler to help me learn. Question #2 kept me going for a while, as my initial attempt at an answer was very slow and inelegant. Then I learnt about Seq.unfold, ...
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Solution to Project Euler problem 5 (LCM of 1 to 20)
I'm an experienced C# developer trying to teach myself F#. I spent a day or 3 reading throught the F# wikibook trying to get to know the syntax and F# fundamentals.
As an exercise I'm trying to go ...
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