
18 Mar
2010
18 Mar
'10
4:13 a.m.
Hi, I was looking at hoogle documentation when I remembered that there is some nice, but quite unusable, feature of squeak (smalltalk) which allows you to search function in the library by giving a list of pairs of inputs/ouputs. When I'm saying that it is quite unusable, I mean that squeak has to try _every_ function, some of which may be very slow to deliver a result, or require some side effects. But, piggibacking such a feature on top of hoogle would surely be more efficient: 1. infer types for arguments and outout 2. look for matching functions using google 3. test them Has anyone tried that before? If not I would be glad to. Paul