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• Mauricio Scheffer commented  ·  November 2, 2012 12:31 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  "Automatic XML comments" are available through this plugin: http://lorgonblog.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/source-code-for-f-xmldoc-extension/

• Anonymous commented  ·  November 2, 2012 12:11 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Visual F# should at the very least support basic editor features found in Visual C# such as Semantic Color Highlighting and Automatic XML Comments (type "///" in front of a function and all the appropriate XML tags appear). The absence of these helpers is a tremendous obstacle for its adoption.

• pavel.savara commented  ·  July 11, 2012 2:07 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Vote on ReSharper too :-)
  http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RSRP-178987

• paulblair commented  ·  May 25, 2012 4:51 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Rename, introduce variable, extract function -- if I had just these three I'd be happy. In my experience, I do these a lot.

• Mikael Kjellqvist commented  ·  January 26, 2012 4:11 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Wohoo, i hope the review goes well and the timeframe will be a short one :)

• Donna Malayeri (MSFT) commented  ·  November 28, 2011 2:08 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  This would indeed be a nice feature, and we are considering it for a future release.

  However, please note that refactoring in F# (and similar languages) is a much harder problem than in OO languages, since it involves type inference and accounting for heavy use of higher order functions. Refactoring in Scala is also hard to implement (e.g., see http://devnet.jetbrains.net/message/5304630#5304630), and even "rename" in Java has problems! (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1449955.1449787).

  This is not to say it cannot be done for F#, but it is definitely a tricky problem.

  Donna Malayeri - MSFT
  Visual Studio F# Program Manager

• igeta commented  ·  October 22, 2011 8:58 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Whether FP or OOP, it's really important to keep readable code.

• Anonymous commented  ·  October 22, 2011 10:53 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Refactorings are not that common in FP practice, mostly because functional composition depends more on type signature than name. So I don't think refactoring features are of top priority.

• mattias waldau commented  ·  October 21, 2011 5:29 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  If you compare F# with Scala inside Intellij, there is a huge difference, Scala handles this much better.