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
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On 10/26/09, David Virebayre <dav.vire+haskell@gmail.com> wrote:or the printf implementation. I tried to figure it out, then the
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Curt Sampson <cjs@starling-software.com>
> wrote:
>> 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 :)
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