[Haskell-cafe] searching a function by providing examples of input/ouput pairs

[Paul Brauner]

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.

Paul