Is the F# language reference documentation available in an offline format (PDF, CHM)? [closed]

Question

I've found several posts on hubFS of people asking if there is, or will be, offline documentation for F#. These posts haven't been answered. So I want to give it a shot and ask the same question here on SO.

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Where I've looked for offline documentation so far:

• The April 2010 CTP release of Visual F# (version 2.0) is available for VS 2008, but it comes without an offline help.

• There's a question on SO about offline documentation for various programming languages, but F# isn't mentioned there at the time of this writing.

• There is of course Microsoft's F# language reference documentation (available on MSDN), which could be downloaded for offline browsing using e.g. wget.

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Question:

Does anyone know whether any "official" offline documentation is on the way, anytime soon?

(And related to this, even tough it might be hard to answer objectively: Would it be reasonable to expect that F# won't undergo ECMA or ISO standardization, ie. there likely won't be a standards document describing the language?)

Throughput

Answer 1

Doesn't directly answer the question but the F# language specifications are here:

• F# 3.0 (PDF, HTML)

• F# 2.0 (PDF, HTML)

These links are taken from the F# team blog post "Updated F# Language Specification for F# 3.0 Now Available".

Lester

Answer 2

Apparently, it is now: https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharpdocs

I'm hoping this will easily convert to a Dash docset or that there's some local-hosting solution for snappy offline indexing and search.

Dedededen