[racket-dev] Roogle?

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 <eli at 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.
>
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