f#-interactive

Somewhat of a F# beginner. I'm trying to test out some of my XmlTypeProvider code in the interactive window by first entering it in a script (fsx) file. The script file won't recognize the following open FSharp.Data // gives "The namespace or module 'FSharp' is not defined" Everything has been added to reference, and .fs files seem to not have any problems finding the XmlTypeProvider reference but for some reason, a script in the same project does not. I even got the code to work in a .fs file. I added FSharp.Data with nuget and everything seem to add correctly. What am I missing here? Add a

Update: Tried November CTP release. Same error message. Forgot to mention that this server has the Ubuntu server edition installed. I don't have this issue on my Ubuntu desktop that runs Desktop 10.10. So I suspected that it could be some command line related libraries missing. After I installed libreadline-dev and libreadline5, the error message disappeared. However, the issue that fsi stuck is still there. Update2: Tried the new Mono 2.8.1. Same FSI stuck issue. Update3: As this issue is very reproducible, I reported it as a bug in fsi.exe to Microsoft. Let's see how it goes. Update4: Got

Disclaimer: Total F# Newbie question! If I type the following into an F# file in Visual Studio #light let squares = seq { for x in 1 .. 10 -> x * x } printf "%A" squares and run F# interactive on it by highlighting and pressing Alt + Enter , the output in the interactive window is > seq [1; 4; 9; 16; ...] val squares : seq<int> > But I want to see the full sequence i.e. > seq [1; 4; 9; 16; 25; 36; 49; 64; 81; 100] val squares : seq<int> > Is this possible? I'm hoping that there is a setting for this that I've missed. Brian 'seq' is a lazily-evaluated construct; it could be infinite, which is

If one uses the F# Interactive Shell (FSI), the inferred expression type ( signature ) is printed to the console along with its value: val it : int * string * float = (42, "Hello F#", 42.0) How can I mimick the same behaviour in my own code, e.g. to get the inferred types as string for a F# expression? I don't need to dynamically evaluate any F# expressions, the expressions are known in compile time and are part of my (static) F# code. I need this feature to be able to mimick the FSI output in LINQPad for my F# demos. Stephen Swensen Using Unquote Unquote has a facility for getting the F#

I would like to use the F# interactive console with the projects in the currently open solution in Visual Studio 2010. Is there a quick and easy way to add a reference in the F# interactive console to reference projects in the currently open solution? If it's a project you reference often, you can add an 'always' reference to the FSI command line, under Tools->Options->F# Tools->F# interactive options. Add a -r switch like: -r "C:\Users\yaddayadda\MyDll.dll" I've got lines like this at the top of my .fs file: #if INTERACTIVE #r @"C:\path\to\some.dll" #I @"C:\Users\bford\path\to\a\project\in

In F# interactive, how can I see a list of variables/functions defined in this session? Like a function whos() in python or ls() in R? Thanks. You can probably implement this using .NET Reflection - local variables and functions are defined as static properties/methods of types in a single dynamic assembly. You can get that assembly by calling GetExecutingAssembly (in FSI itself) and then browse the types to find all suitable properties. The following is a reasonably working function for getting local variables: open System.Reflection open System.Collections.Generic let getVariables() = let