It was my Diplomarbeit finished in 1983, so that makes it 28 years now.
On Aug 5, 2011, at 12:17 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > 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 > <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> 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 <e...@barzilay.org> 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 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
