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 "&
gt;
&
gt;"
* -> *There are 0 results.
and so on...
Responses from the
http://search.gmane.org
>>= Here, too, it seems the script searched for the string "&
gt;
&
gt;"
* -> * Here it seems the script searched for the string "&
gt;"
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