Will you please share your insight? What are Type Providers? What is their advantage over, say, naively dumping type definitions from pre-processing a CSV file?
The user could certainly dump a type definition, but for users who just want to point to some data in one go, the F# type provider[0] works with just:
CsvProvider<"trades.csv">.Load("trades.csv")
I personally didn't like having to list the file twice, so in Empirical[1] it's just:
load$("trades.csv")
My current version requires the dollar sign to tell the compiler that the parameter will be static (known at compile time). I'm planning on an updated version[2] that will eliminate the dollar from the function call:
load("trades.csv")
Basically, it means that users can just load the file like in a dynamically typed language, except that Empirical is statically typed.
