Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal: simple interface to libraries Haddock

Hi David,

I'm proposing something simple that should make it easier for both Haskell programmers and Haskell tool writers to find the documentation for a function. We need a simple URL for the Haddock docs of any function. PHP has this already: just hit php.net/funcname for the documentation for funcname(). My proposal is similarly simple:

http://docs.haskell.org/funcname

A sensible idea, and Hoogle 4 will have this built in. Hoogle 3 already has something very similar: http://haskell.org/hoogle/hoodoc.cgi?module=Prelude&name=filter&mode=func Hoogle 4 will expand this to have package= I can then trivially add a "feeling lucky (punk)" mode to Hoogle, and you can have http://haskell.org/hoogle/?mode=lucky&q=funcname Thanks Neil