F# Language Specification
This is an initiative to create a more complete and community-maintainable F# spec.
This will be no small task, but we believe it is worthwhile and we count on community contributions.
We foresee three phases:
- Convert the latest official spec to markdown and create the structure and tools to make it community-maintainable. This is almost done.
- Add the post-4.1 features as documented in the RFCs to the spec. Our goal: a complete F#9 spec.
- Make spec update part of new feature development so that an up-to-date spec can be released with every new major compiler release.
The spec is in the end closely coupled to the language design and therefore needs a) strong community contributions and b) a clearly defined final responsibility, which will be similar to the one of the language design process.
We foresee the following types of contributions:
- Issues and/or PRs for bug fixes.
- PRs for integration of an accepted and implemented RFC.
- Issues for proposing and discussing smaller or larger improvements to the spec
- PRs for such improvements, once the discussion converges and/or is decided by the team in charge
All PRs need to be accepted by two team reviewers for merging.
The sources are the markdown files for the chapters (clauses) in the spec directory.
Run build to create a new complete spec (including ToC and updated reference links) in your artifacts directory.
At certain points, releases are created and published in the releases directory.