Re: [Caml-list] where are we on the Hoogle for OCaml front?

[Francois BERENGER <francois.c.berenger@vanderbilt.edu>]

On 02/03/2017 09:58 PM, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> For search by type signature you can use Jun Furuse's OCamlOScope:
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> https://camlspotter.github.io/ocamloscope.html
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> It also gives documentation when available.
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> I'm not sure how big the database is.

It would be nice if the database was containing everything that is in opam.
Or, at least the latest version of anything that is in opam.

Is it really "production ready"?

Should we all jump on it?

Will it stay online for some years?

> Jacques
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> On 2017/01/28 01:39, Francois BERENGER wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> Do we have a hoogle[1] equivalent that is in production for OCaml?
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>> I mean something that would index all source code available in opam
>> and allow queries by type signature or keyword?
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>> Currently, I use ocp-browser but I still feel like
>> it's a temporary and not super efficient measure.
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>> I don't know how to do query by type signature with it.
>> And many packages don't install their doc so you cannot
>> see the doc for each function.
>> At list for the stdlib it works (inside ocp-browser you type List.map then spacebar, for example).
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>> When I was an Haskell programmer (for two months, a long time ago), I felt Hoogle was the biggest productivity enhancer (you don't reinvent
>> the wheel, just find which one you need and use it).
>>
>> Regards,
>> F.
>>
>> [1] https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/
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