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The C#/.NET Fundamentals series is geared towards examining fundamental concepts in using C# (and .NET in general) to produce effective solutions. There are times when we are writing a method that returns a sequence of items, that it occasionally becomes necessary in base-class, interface implementation, error, or default conditions to return a sequence of only one or even zero items. There are many ways to do this, of course, which begs the question of which way is best, in terms of readability, ...

I ran into some rather interesting numbers while trying to optimize my Connect Four implementation. Try to guess what this code will print out: let test= let stop1 = Stopwatch.StartNew() let list = [1..1000000] let bla = list |> List.fold (fun state x -> state + x) 0 stop1.Stop() let stop2 = Stopwatch.StartNew() let seq = seq{1..1000000} |> Seq.fold (fun state x -> state + x) 0 stop2.Stop() let stop3 = Stopwatch.StartNew() let arr = [|1..1000000|] let arr1 = arr|> Array.fold (fun state ...