I had a bit of a no brainer yesterday… I have been using the forward pipe to convert values, and came up against the problem where the following code would work
let IntToFloat = 10 |> float
let FloatToInt = 10.0 |> int
But the equivalent bigint code would not work…
let FloatToBigint = 10.0 |> bigint
It was only after a few hours of reading up on type casting in F# and getting totally confused that I finally resulted to Stack Overflow. The answer was humbling…
The reason why FloatToBignint does not compile is because F# compiler is looking for a function called bigint that has an input of type float. Duh!
All along I was thinking that I needed to add some sort of overloading to the operator to allow bigint to accept the forward pipe and yet I had missed the obvious.
So as soon as I had the following function declared…
let bigint(x:float) = bigint(x)
the code…
let FloatToBigint = 10.0 |> bigint
works perfectly…
thank you Stack Overflow!