Hi Cafe,
It seems, the function names in Haskell libs are not first-class objects,
AT LEAST when it comes to searching for them of the net!
I was trying to search for the following Haskell functions in the mailing
list archives. Here is a summary of the responses I have had from various
servers upon searching various "valid and normally used" Haskell function
identifiers from well-known libraries.
<kdamodar2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Cafe,
> It seems, the function names in Haskell libs are not first-class objects, AT
> LEAST when it comes to searching for them of the net!
> I was trying to search for the following Haskell functions in the mailing
> list archives. Here is a summary of the responses I have had from various
> servers upon searching various "valid and normally used" Haskell function
> identifiers from well-known libraries.
> Responses from the http://www.mail-archive.com > >>=, It seems the script searched for the string "> >"
> * -> *There are 0 results.
> and so on...
> Responses from the http://search.gmane.org >>>= Here, too, it seems the script searched for the string "> >"
> * -> * Here it seems the script searched for the string ">"
> and so on...
> Note: google badly fails to search these functions identifiers.
> My current solution to this problem is: download compressed text archives
> and do a simple grep on it on my machine.
On 1 September 2012 01:11, damodar kulkarni <kdamodar2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I knew hoogle to some extent, not an expert user though.
> and, it seems, the "hoogle plugin for firefox" works only for haskell.org
Because Hoogle indexes the packages on Hackage.
Where else can it find it Haskell source code? If I understand
correctly, Hoogle (and Hayoo) directly parse the Haskell source code
rather than being a search engine in the Google sense.
