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F# 4.0 Design Patterns

You're reading from   F# 4.0 Design Patterns Solve complex problems with functional thinking

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884726
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Begin Thinking Functionally 2. Dissecting F# Origins and Design FREE CHAPTER 3. Basic Functions 4. Basic Pattern Matching 5. Algebraic Data Types 6. Sequences - The Core of Data Processing Patterns 7. Advanced Techniques: Functions Revisited 8. Data Crunching – Data Transformation Patterns 9. More Data Crunching 10. Type Augmentation and Generic Computations 11. F# Expert Techniques 12. F# and OOP Principles/Design Patterns 13. Troubleshooting Functional Code

Wildcard matching


If I put the preceding scripts into Visual Studio, the F# source code editor will draw a blue warning squiggle line under the ``compare me`` comparison expression, indicating that the set of rules in this match construction is not exhaustive, as shown in the following screenshot:

An example of an incomplete pattern matching

The compiler even gives a sample value of ``compare me``, which is not going to match. Although this value is not present within the definition of type Multiples, if I synthetically create this value as enum<Multiples>(1) and feed it as an argument into transformB, the result would be the run-time exception of type Microsoft.FSharp.Core.MatchFailureException. This situation should raise the following question: how would it be possible to put a match all rule into the match, which means anything that was not specified in preceding rules?

For this purpose, F# offers the special wildcard pattern  _ that matches anything that was not matched in the preceding...

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