Part 3. Advanced F# programming techniques
In part 2, we talked about functional concepts common to most functional languages. You could now say that you understand functional programming in the same way you can say you’re familiar with OOP after reading about encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. You’d still need to learn a few other things before you’d be an effective object-oriented developer, and functional programming in F# is no different.
In the same way that there are specific features in every object-oriented language, there are useful features in F# that aren’t commonly available in other functional languages. The first example of this is in chapter 9 when we talk about object types and members. F# is a first-class citizen ...
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