[Haskell-cafe] Function names in Haskell lib not first-class on web!

[damodar kulkarni]

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.

But the archives up to year 2000 only are found at http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/.
So, as an aside: Where do I find the earlier messages for downloading?

Thanks,
Damodar

[Kristopher Micinski]

You know about Hoogle, right?

kris

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[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:21 PM, damodar kulkarni <kdamod...@gmail.com> wrote:

Note: google badly fails to search these functions identifiers.

http://symbolhound.com/

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[damodar kulkarni]

thanks for the symbolhound link.


@Kristopher:
I knew hoogle to some extent, not an expert user though.
and, it seems, the "hoogle plugin for firefox" works only for haskell.org

Damodar

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 1 September 2012 01:11, damodar kulkarni <kdamod...@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.

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