Question

I need to declare a function in F# that takes 2 parameters (row, col) and return an 2-dimensional array of Option (intitializing all elements to be none), but I don’t know the right syntax. I’ve tried something like:

type T = 
  {
   ....//my type
  }

let create2DArrayOfT (row : int , col: int) Array2D<Option<T>> = Array2D.init<Option<T>> 10 10 (fun -> None)

the signature above is wrong in specifing the return type.
So I have 2 questions:

1. What’s the right signature for specifying the return type as a 2-dimensional array?
2. I’ve tought to use Option for the elements of my array because I want it to allow some locations to be empty. Is this reasonable?

Answer 1

You don’t need to specify return type as that will be deduced by type inference.
Just use:

type T = {Name : string}
let create2DArrayOfT (row : int , col: int) = Array2D.init<Option<T>> 10 10 (fun _ _ -> None)

UPDATE:

If you want specify return type use:

let create2DArrayOfT (row : int , col: int) : Option<T> [,] = Array2D.init<Option<T>> 10 10 (fun _ _ -> None)