This idea is proposed roughly every 2-3 years for at least 30 years. I am not aware of anyone having made this idea "fly".
Shriram On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Robby Findler <[email protected]> wrote: > I too tried it (ages ago) and ended up roughly where Eli is, but I > didn't want to judge since I wasn't actually trying to use it for > something useful (and, as we all know, that can change how you use > things and how well they work for you). So I wonder if anyone has a > positive experience with this kind of searching in an "in anger" kind > of setting? > > Robby > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Eli Barzilay <[email protected]> wrote: >> 6 minutes ago, Asumu Takikawa wrote: >>> A few of us in the lab today were discussing how the Haskell >>> community has this nice tool called Hoogle >>> (http://www.haskell.org/hoogle) that lets you search Haskell docs by >>> type. >> >> Are there any *practical* uses for that thing? >> >> (Not a flame, I tried it a few times, and it looked like i might be >> useful in a language where you use point-free style to compose >> functions -- so you might know the type that you need `(a -> b -> c) >> -> (b -> c -> a)' but not the `flip' name. But such serches don't >> see, to work. So from this shallow scan, it looks like one of these >> things that sound cool on paper, but are useless in practice.) >> >> >>> Is it at all feasible to supplement Racket's doc search to display >>> contracts >> >> That won't be hard in itself, but the real problem is huge blocks of >> text in the results which would make it much less useful. >> >>> and/or search by contract? (or type for TR) >> >> That would be more difficult, since the search will need to do a lot >> more work. I'm also guessing that given that we have much more *text* >> in contracts (as in "integer" and "resolved-module-path?"), it will >> make searching show way more false positives. >> >> -- >> ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: >> http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev >> > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
