[Haskell-cafe] Graph theory analysis of Haskell code

[David Roundy]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 09:34:30AM +0100, Ketil Malde wrote:
> "Tim Chevalier" <catamorphism at gmail.com> writes:
> > This is very well-trodden ground, but if you familiarize yourself with
> > the literature on the subject, then who knows, you may discover
> > something new.
> 
> I'll just add that having a tool visualizing this would be very useful
> for refactoring code.  If you e.g. use color to distinguish
> nodes/functions from different modules, you could use that information
> to decide to merge or split modules to minimize external interfaces.
> 
> You could also try to automatically cluster nodes, which would be more
> interesting theoretically, but IMO less likely to be practical.
> 
> Another option would be to couple this with profiling or coverage
> information to visualize something about the usage of paths and nodes
> in the call graph.

Indeed, a visualization tool like this would be cool!
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University