Don Syme

BTW those interested in programming language archeology may want to know that AFAIK the first people to propose this kind of construct were Nick Benton and Andrew Kennedy at Microsoft...

I marked this approved in principle, subject to this comment https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/895#issuecomment-670927823 I'm not planning to work on it myself though may be able to give some guidance. I don't think...

Duplicate of https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/issues/385

This is a long-standing issue and I think there are various duplicates of it. I suspect the right approach here is to start raising warnings when this formulation is used

@brettfo @KevinRansom I'd like to iterate on the design here. I know we have extensible type-direct formatting through `Formatter.Register(f)` but we need to get the basic default printing of a...

FWIW I think the best approach here in the short term would be "revert to printing plain text of F# values unless we are *sure* the result is going to...

@jonsequitur and I had an adhoc chat mostly about plaintext formats and went through the existing structured plaintext formattting mechanisms in F#. Eventually the notes got turned into https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-reference/plaintext-formatting ###...

@jonsequitur @KevinRansom @cartermp I have added a page to the F# docs on F# structured plaintext formatting, see * Pull request: https://github.com/dotnet/docs/pull/19632 * [New doc page](https://github.com/dotnet/docs/blob/d28c5d365d9e08e3f941028717e36fcfa866b7aa/docs/fsharp/language-reference/plaintext-formatting.md#plain-text-formatting) * [Additions to F#...

As part of looking at this issue I'm doing a deep dive on what the current spec for Formatting actually is, see https://github.com/dotnet/interactive/issues/692#issuecomment-670918750 for my mini-spec

I've been starting to work with build where F# notebooks default to F# Interactive structured plaintext formatting, building on #694 Here's an example:  This is definitely the correct default...