One thing I miss in #Lisp coming from #Haskell is the ability to search for functions by their type signature. I hadn't realized how much I relied upon this ability until I lost it.
lispworks.com/documentation/Hy… maybe that could help you. #Lisp is interactive which means you are more likely to explore you program and your problem than thinking upfront to much about it. Sound quite strange at first but if you like always shift the view lisp is more like you get to what you want to do first and build stuff around it on the go. So its problem first
@Björn Gohla No, I mean that I can do that in Haskell, but not Lisp. Lisp doesn't really have type signatures, so such a feature wouldn't really make sense.
As a Schemer (and formerly/sometimes still Objective-C), everything is pretty verbose, and my own functions even more so, so I can search by function name knowing the type and parameters. (vector-index vec searchfunc), (draw-rect-with-edge-color rect edge-width color), etc.
There's no excuse for hardcore Lisp functions like (wadsf w q) "wander down stack frames for word query" (fictional but not unlikely). #lisp
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •well, there is hoogle for that.
Although I agree, it should be possible to search by signature in GHCi for all modules in scope, without building an index first.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •As a Schemer (and formerly/sometimes still Objective-C), everything is pretty verbose, and my own functions even more so, so I can search by function name knowing the type and parameters. (vector-index vec searchfunc), (draw-rect-with-edge-color rect edge-width color), etc.
There's no excuse for hardcore Lisp functions like (wadsf w q) "wander down stack frames for word query" (fictional but not unlikely).
#lisp
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