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F# – defining a type extension for generic array

on 8/9/2012 12:50 AM

Peculiarly I couldn’t find any documented way to create a type extension for a generic array, ‘a [ ], turns out you need to use backtick marks ( ‘ ) around the square brackets in order to do that:

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