On Monday 07 December 2009 10:24:37 Lyndon Maydwell wrote:
I had heard that Hoogle actually compiled any type-signatures, where as Hayoo just did a text comparison.
I'm not actually sure if this is true or not though.
If it is, it would mean that "[q] -> [r] -> [(q,r)]" would return zip in Hoogle, but not Hayoo.
Am I right about this?
Yes, we (in Hayoo!) only do text based stuff. Is is possbile to search for signatures, but no generalization etc. is done at all. This is very primitive in Hayoo! and I really suggest using Hoogle for type searches. As for the question about a command line interface: There is nothing like that for Hayoo!, although one could easily hack something together, just using some wget-grep-cut-magic. I also have some code lying around for primitive command line searches using an offline Hayoo! index. Maybe I could get that into proper shape, given enough public demand ;) Cheers, Timo