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Any (minor) requests for F# 1.1.11.8?

F# 1.1.11.8 is being finalized.  This is mostly a bug-fix release, with lots of small but important improvements (ever noticed how that "caret" often appears just off the edge of the screen in Visual F# Interactive?  Well, no more!) That said, we may squeeze in an early prototype of a new feature called "active patterns".  We may also have a new installer/uninstaller (we'll keep the ZIP distribution).

F# is being used an awful lot at Microsoft Research in Cambridge (home grown users!), so we're often busy collecting feature requests from them.  But why stop there? If anybody has small feature requests for this or a future version please email them to me or place them on the wiki. I'm not guaranteeing we'll get to them, but we'd love to hear your suggestions.

Don

Published Tuesday, July 11, 2006 12:40 AM by dsyme

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# Interesting Finds: July 10, 2007

Monday, July 10, 2006 8:47 PM by Jason Haley

# re: Any (minor) requests for F# 1.1.11.8?

Is it possible to add the ability to <watch> global variables? The template-generated code of *.fs has mostly globals and I found no way to see them  - got "the name is not defined in the current context error"

Also, when one closes f# interactive  window, the checkbox Tools->Add-In Manager->F# Interactive remains checked. So in order to reopen it I had to uncheck and check it again. I use VS2005.

In addition somehow I expected for the program output to go to the "Output window" and spent a lot of time roaming through the forums to try to understand what's wrong with my installation until I found the console under the IDE. Maybe you will consider adding a comment that the output goes to the console.

P.S. Maybe this suggestions are nonsense - it was the first time I used VS. At work I use VIM "IDE" for compiler backend optimizations.
Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:15 AM by yanov
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