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                                            Don Syme

Fields and methods on internal types are impossible to make public

@saul Do you think it is now safe to close this as by-design, given the roslyn fix is in the works? thanks

Fields and methods on internal types are impossible to make public

> It's not unreasonable for me to want to have a type that isn't on the public API, but has public members that can be consumed by libraries that I'm...

Fields and methods on internal types are impossible to make public

@saul Reopening this since it came up again in the context of Enum codegen #4821 To me, it make no logical sense in a programming language design to allow the...

dotnet fsi startup overhead surprisingly high

> Could it be that the overhead simply stems from JITting the compiler (unless it's already ngened)? Yes, the primary cost is certainly the JIT of compiler code. However my...

Calling protected static base member from static do raises MethodAccessException

Hmmm yes this should be allowed. Thanks

Add List.chooseV, Seq.tryPickV, etc. for ValueOption

I'll mark this as approved in principle. However I'm aware it's a big addition and should perhaps be done outside FSharp.Core. @vzarytovskii This may motivate shipping an additional FSharp.Collections.Extensions or...

Don't emit unnecessary closures

I agree we should fix this

Don't emit unnecessary closures

I'd like to make progress on this issue, it might need an RFC. There are several separate proposals lurking here and I'd like to tease them apart. The basic situation...

Don't emit unnecessary closures

I've written a language suggestion for this here: https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/1083

Allow object expression without overrides

This makes total sense, there is no reason why we shouldn't allow this. Marking as approved-in-principle