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                                            Don Syme

Question on ContextInsensitive tasks

FWIW I can see that neither `task { .. }` nor `backgroundTask { ... }` capture the computational modality for the kind of task writing that's in Stephen Toub's post....

Question on ContextInsensitive tasks

Yeah, `backgroundTask` makes sense to me. What would you think if the spec of backgroundTask was this (instead of always using `Task.Run`)? ```fsharp backgroundTask { code } == if SynchronizationContext.Current...

Use System.Net.Http.HttpClient

Hmmmm interesting. Would be good to hear what other people think. It feels like we should at least make sure that we're following the recommended use (we should assume .NET...

C# record interop (including init only properties of .net 5 and required of .net 7)

RFC for the init-only/required parts of this work is here: https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/main/FSharp-7.0/FS-1127-init-only-and-required-properties.md

print and printn alongside printf and printfn

@AdamBebko Thank you for this feedback!

Allow finer-grained control of "open", like Haskell's "import hiding"

Closing this out in favour of #309, we can discuss there

Result module parity with Options

RFC: https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/main/FSharp-7.0/FS-1123-result-module-parity-with-option.md Implementation: https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/13326

Support optional arguments for optional parameters

I'm labelling this as approved - I don't see any reason not to also support these given we interop with them anyway, and there are legitimate reasons to need them...

[RFC FS-1060] Nullness checking

I'll open a new PR for this

[WIP] 12366: Improve closure names

> Would love to have this, seems to be a good improvement in the debugging experience. Is there anything I can help to progress with this :)? @dsyme @vzarytovskii I've...