Thanks Paulo for your comment and sorry for late reply. On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Paulo Pocinho wrote:

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? Hayhoo seems to suit what I want. -- Ken On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Paulo Pocinho wrote:

On 21 May 2012 00:55, Ken Kawamoto wrote: (...)

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Now I'm wondering if I'm missing something, or Hoogle supports only a predefined set of functions. Any advise would be appreciated.

Hi.

Hoogle [1] can search by type as well as by name. This currently only works for standard Haskell libraries. Hayhoo [2] is a string-based search only but also covers hackage [3].

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. Having search by type in hackage would be great though.

Hope this helps.

-- 1. http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/ 2. http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/hayoo/hayoo.html 3. http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/hackage.html 4. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hoogle

Regards, Paulo