Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hoogle is great but ...

I likewise agree this isn't a job for Hoogle, but on a related note see my previous post in here about needing better documentation (specifically a proper manual for most hackage pages, not just a bare bones API doc): http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2009-October/067969.html -R. Kyle Murphy -- Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat. On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:11, David Leimbach wrote:

On 10/26/09, David Virebayre > wrote:

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On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Curt Sampson

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But zaxis, here's another thing to look at. There's usually a "view source" link beside most of the functions that come up in the Haddock documentation to which Hoogle links. It's worth clicking. You would be surprised (certainly I was!) at how often looking at the definition of a function suddenly makes it quite clear what it does, when the description didn't quite do it for you. (This is one of the joys of Haskell.)

I tried that with parsec 3, my brain exploded :) _______

or the printf implementation. I tried to figure it out, then the Cenobites came and got me.

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