F# 4.0 Design Patterns

Summary

The following are the key concepts and the list of skills you should take away after finishing this chapter and strive for absorbing and mastering:

Avoid mutable state and achieve data transformations over immutable values and data structures. Think of programming solutions in terms of verbs rather than nouns. Avoid expressing a solution in highly detailed imperative "how" statements; use the "what to do" approach instead. Generalize: prefer a general parameterized solution to a concrete one. Strive to minimize the moving parts of your solution instead of hiding these moving parts into classes. Try expressing solutions by a few well-known facilities instead of delving into producing custom ones. When appropriate, prefer lazy data collections ...