tyauvil's solution to Hello World on the F# track

Instructions

Test suite

Solution

The classical introductory exercise. Just say "Hello, World!".

"Hello, World!" is the traditional first program for beginning programming in a new language or environment.

The objectives are simple:

Write a function that returns the string "Hello, World!".
Run the test suite and make sure that it succeeds.
Submit your solution and check it at the website.

If everything goes well, you will be ready to fetch your first real exercise.

Running the tests

To run the tests, run the command dotnet test from within the exercise directory.

Further information

For more detailed information about the F# track, including how to get help if you're having trouble, please visit the exercism.io F# language page.

Source

This is an exercise to introduce users to using Exercism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_world!%22_program

HelloWorldTest.fs

// This file was auto-generated based on version 1.1.0 of the canonical data.

module HelloWorldTest

open FsUnit.Xunit
open Xunit

open HelloWorld

[<Fact>]
let ``Say Hi!`` () =
    hello |> should equal "Hello, World!"

module HelloWorld

let hello: string = sprintf "Hello, World!"

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