Units of measure in F#
July 2, 2017 Leave a comment
A very interesting feature of F# – besides many others – is that we can assign a unit of measure to a variable value. These units of measure are located in the Microsoft.FSharp.Data.UnitSystems.SI.UnitNames namespace. As the namespace suggests the units are taken from the international system of units.
They are surrounded with angled brackets in code. Here’s an example: