Don Syme

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> Agreed on the weird equivalence between ref and byref that must have been implemented long ago. It's something I'd like to do away with somehow, but I do fear...

Yes, thanks, that one too, I've added it to the list

If we did something to reduce the number of open, I think it would be to allow `global open XYZ` but require that they be the first things in the...

I'll marked as approved-in-principle since this is in C# 11

This seems reasonable - is there any existing practice for this in C# or other languages?

One approach would be to add a new ``FSharp.Core.Extras.dll`` (exact naming TBD) to the set of default references in F# projects, with a dependency on ``System.Collections.Immutable.dll``, with type roarray =...

I'm labeling this as approved-in-principle - we should address this though the exact approach is far from decided

@Tarmil It's a very good question. ### Pattern matching Effective, performant pattern matching would likely need an extension to active patterns. Best syntax would be something like ``` match x...

> Are the collections in System.Collections.Immutable really performant, compared to the collections in FSharpx.Collections (ported over from Clojure)? ... I think both may suffer somewhat because of [this issue](https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/2209#issuecomment-309427108) which...