Don Syme

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>Another problem with Async.Start is that it runs in the threadpool. Is it possible to implement WithCancellation without switching to the threadpool? Would it be sufficient to just change the...

I updated the "F# Language Design Squad" here: https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/pull/1404

@IanWitham i will create a new repo docs.fsharp.org and give you access

Created! https://github.com/fsharp/docs.fsharp.org

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I've done a little typescript for a project and found this kind of "punning" (if that's the right term) quite natural. I am going to remark this as approved-in-principle. We...

> I think that for the initial version accepting only exact matches would be sufficient. This aligns with expectations for users familiar with JS/TS, and it reduces the 'rules' that...

> The casing thing is really unfortunate and artificially reduces the usefulness of this feature, but at the same time automatically uppercasing/lowercasing things in the language feels very wrong. Yes,...

> Also what would the interop story with other .NET languages look like? For extension methods, I believe they would only have to open the relevant namespace. > What would...

> What about a general proposal to allow types defined locally in a function? That's covered by https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/150