[racket-dev] Roogle?

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
<robby at 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 <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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