On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:
Many other languages have help pages in the command (see help() in
python and R). Why haskell doesn't have such a feature?

Because Haskell doesn't predate the web? :p

You can build local documentation and access it from ghci with some hooks (see https://wiki.haskell.org/Ghci#Package_and_documentation_lookup although it's a bit outdated), but Haskell is not a dynamic language and ghci is not trying to be its primary developer interface. And you can't exactly hyperlink on a terminal.

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