A lexer for F*, an ML dialect for program verification #1409
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Reviving pul request #1304 by solving merge conflicts.
F* is now officially supported by GitHub : https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/languages.yml#L1406.
F* is a programming language of the ML family, with support for program verification. F* has an active community at http://fstar-lang.org/ and is taught all over the world in numerous universities and summer schools. Code written and verified with F* is used by Mozilla Firefox, for their cryptographic code (see https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2017/09/13/verified-cryptography-firefox-57/).
F* shares many syntax elements with OCaml, so the lexer is very similar. Notable differences from the OCamlLexer include:
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