Re: [Haskell-beginners] Missing some functions in Hoogle

On 25 May 2012 15:04, Ken Kawamoto wrote:

Thanks Paulo for your comment and sorry for late reply.

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Paulo Pocinho wrote:

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After testing Hoogle cabal package [4], it can either generate databases for the current system or fetch the database from the internet. However, database search only covered standard libraries.

What does this part mean? With Hoogle package, you can generate databases for any library, but the search works only for standard libraries?

Although this is consistent with what I experienced, it's a bit surprising because this means generating database doesn't make any sense, does it?

Exactly. By default, hoogle did not index every library installed in my system. There is a flag for database creation with haddock [1]. However, I found it a bit complicated [2].

Hayhoo seems to suit what I want.

I must correct myself: it searches all packages from Hackage, including all function *and* type definitions [3]. Works like a charm. -- 1. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hoogle#Database_Creation 2. http://neilmitchell.blogspot.pt/2008/08/hoogle-database-generation.html 3. http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/hayoo/hayoo.html Regards, Paulo