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Fing: F# API Search
In the web interface only, probably, the equivalent of ghc's :i Int or :bro Int, plus the methods implemented on a type. The intellisense tooltips do this but they are...
eg `list 'b)` The likelihood of people entering types like this is pretty low, but whatever.
Probably only really useful for a web interface. Clunky otherwise.
The current solution is a temporary hack involving a hard-coded map.
The token parser is super ugly and probably really easy to break. But it gives the WORST error messages in the world right now, so it has to be fixed...
This is pretty long term, and nobody may even want this. In case this ever gets implemented, the name of the search engine should certainly change to Zing.
Maybe eventually I can even get rid of the dependency on FSharp.Powerpack.Metadata.
Later: need more thought on this. Probably this means a plugin system, with rankings etc etc. Lots of work for the corner cases.