Scala 2016
Sun 30 - Mon 31 October 2016 Amsterdam, Netherlands
co-located with SPLASH 2016
Sun 30 Oct 2016 11:45 - 12:10 at Matterhorn 2 - Types

Type-directed API search, using queries composed of both keywords and type signatures to retrieve definitions from APIs, are popular in the functional programming community. This search technique allows programmers to easily navigate complex and large APIs in order to find the definitions they are interested in. While there exist some effective approaches to address type-directed API search for functional languages, we observed that none of these have been successfully adapted for use with statically-typed, object-oriented languages. The challenge here is incorporating large and unified inheritance hierarchies and the resulting prevalence of subtyping into an API retrieval model. We describe a new approach to API retrieval and provide an implementation thereof for the Scala language. Our evaluation with queries mined from Q&A websites shows that the model retrieves definitions from the Scala standard library with 94% of the relevant results in the top 10.

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Sun 30 Oct

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10:30 - 12:10
10:30
25m
Talk
Implementing Higher-Kinded Types in Dotty
Scala
Martin Odersky EPFL, Switzerland, Guillaume Martres EPFL, Switzerland, Dmitry Petrashko EPFL, Switzerland
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
10:55
25m
Talk
Semantics-Driven Interoperability between Scala.js and JavaScript
Scala
Sébastien Doeraene EPFL, Switzerland, Tobias Schlatter EPFL, Switzerland, Nicolas Stucki EPFL, Switzerland
DOI Pre-print
11:20
25m
Talk
A Generic Algorithm for Checking Exhaustivity of Pattern Matching (Short Paper)
Scala
Fengyun Liu EPFL, Switzerland
DOI Media Attached
11:45
25m
Talk
Scaps: Type-Directed API Search for Scala
Scala
Lukas Wegmann 1plusX, Switzerland, Farhad Mehta University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil, Switzerland, Peter Sommerlad University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil, Switzerland, Mirko Stocker University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil, Switzerland
DOI File Attached