On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:13:40AM +0100, Paul Brauner wrote:
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.
Take a look at MagicHaskeller; I think it does what you want. There was even a recent release on Hackage. http://nautilus.cs.miyazaki-u.ac.jp/~skata/MagicHaskeller.html http://hackage.haskell.org/package/MagicHaskeller Regards, Reid Barton