[Haskell-cafe] ANN: exference: a different djinn

Hello folks, Exference[1] is a Haskell tool for generating expressions from a type, e.g. Input: (Show b) => (a -> b) -> [a] -> [String] Output: \ b -> fmap (\ g -> show (b g)) In contrast to Djinn, the well known tool with the same general purpose, Exference supports a larger subset of the haskell type system - most prominently type classes. (Djinn's environment many contain type classes, but using them in queries will not really work.) This comes at a cost, however: Exference makes no promise regarding termination. Where Djinn tells you "there are no solutions", Exference will keep trying, sometimes aborting a non-ending search with "i could not find any solutions". See [2] for a report about the implementation, capabilities and limitations. [1] https://github.com/lspitzner/exference [2] https://github.com/lspitzner/exference/raw/master/exference.pdf Lennart