Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

October 11, 2011

Scalex

Filed under: Scala — Patrick Durusau @ 5:54 pm

Scalex

From the webpage:

Scaladoc Index

Much like Hoogle for Haskell, Scalex lets you find Scala functions quickly.

  • map Search for the text “map”
  • list map Search for the text “list” and the text “map”
  • A => A Search for the type “A => A”
  • : A => A Search for the type “A => A”
  • a Search for the text “a”
  • map : List[A] => (A => B) => List[B]
    Search for the text “map” and the type “List[A] => (A => B) => List[B]”

Searches can be either textual (a list of words), or by type (a type signature) or both. A type search may optionally start with a : symbol. A search is considered a text search unless it contains a combination of text and symbols, or if it starts with :. To search for both a type and a name, place a : between them, for example size : List[A] => Int

It occurs to me that a topic map version of such a resource could have “occurrences” of functions drawn from a code base that exist in associations with known programs and programmers. As an added resource to see how things are done with a particular function by experts.

Without documentation of the surrounding code that might be less useful than one would otherwise think but all good code is documented, isn’t it? 😉

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