From: Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] where are we on the Hoogle for OCaml front?
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 09:02:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170206140253.GA20685@topoi.pooq.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <67BCE44C836B466EBD22FC5CE5A4CD13@erratique.ch>
On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 04:46:02PM +0100, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
> On Saturday, 4 February 2017 at 04:58, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> > For search by type signature you can use Jun Furuse's OCamlOScope:
>
> I'm a little bit curious. While I can see the benefit of having general full text search over value identifiers, type identifier and doc strings I was always a little bit dubious about type signature search -- in the end ML types for themselves are a rather weak specification language (I'm not talking about the invariants you may hide behind those of course).
>
> So beyond curiosity searches are actually people seriously using this to lookup a value they might need ?
Search on parts of the type, even. It is very useful to find all the
functions that do anything with values of a particular type in order
to find out what you can do with it. As well as how you can produce
values of that type.
-- hendrik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-06 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-27 14:22 [Caml-list] FroCoS 2017 - 2nd Call for Papers Geoff Sutcliffe
2017-01-27 16:39 ` [Caml-list] where are we on the Hoogle for OCaml front? Francois BERENGER
2017-02-04 3:58 ` Jacques Garrigue
2017-02-06 14:35 ` Francois BERENGER
2017-02-06 15:46 ` Daniel Bünzli
2017-02-06 14:02 ` Hendrik Boom [this message]
2017-02-06 16:00 ` Daniel Bünzli
2017-02-06 16:07 ` Ivan Gotovchits
2017-02-06 16:11 ` Ivan Gotovchits
2017-02-06 16:34 ` Daniel Bünzli
2017-02-06 16:46 ` Ivan Gotovchits
2017-02-06 16:55 ` Frédéric Bour
2017-02-06 16:01 ` Ivan Gotovchits
2017-02-06 16:06 ` Daniel Bünzli
2017-02-06 17:46 ` Francois BERENGER
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