Interop with C#

Some F# features require a bit of interop code to make it easily consumable in C#.

Optional parameters

We can define a C# function by writing the following piece of code:

    public class CSharpExample { 
        public static int Add(int x, int y = 1) { 
            return x + y; 
        } 
    } 

We can call the function in C# by writing the following piece of code:

    var a = CSharpExample.Add(10) 
    var b = CSharpExample.Add(10, 20); 

If we try the same with F#, it will work as well:

    let a = CSharpExample.Add(10) 
    let b = CSharpExample.Add(10, 20) 

Now, the other way around; a method defined in F# using the F# flavor of optional parameters is as follows:

    type FSharp =  
        static member Add(x, ?y) =  
            let y = defaultArg y 1  
            x + y  

We can happily use it like this in F#:

    let a = FSharp.Add(10)
    let b = FSharp.Add(10, 20)

If we try to use this in C#, then we will see that it's not exposed as an optional parameter, so we will...