Learning F# with FizzBuzz: Match

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I had previously done a solution for FizzBuzz in F# (from a long time ago) but now that I’m more familiar with the idioms of F# I tend more towards pattern matching instead of if/else logic for quite a few scenarios. Here is an example of my rewriting what could otherwise been a conditional if/else checking for factors of 3 and 5, but using a pattern match instead.

#light 
let fizz num = 
    match (num % 3 = 0) with 
    | true -> "fizz"
    | false -> ""

let buzz num = 
    match (num % 5 = 0) with 
    | true -> "buzz"
    | false -> ""

let outform num fizCalc = 
    match fizCalc.ToString().Length = 0 with
    | true -> num.ToString()
    | false -> fizCalc

let rec printer nums =
    match nums with
    | [] -> printfn "-"
    | h::t ->         
        printfn "%s" (outform h ((fizz h) + (buzz h)))
        printer t

let numbers = [1..100]
printer numbers

Although I read claims that if/else conditional operations are more readable, I think the pattern match used consistently across scenarios above makes for something I find quite readable.

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