On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:21 PM, damodar kulkarni
 wrote:
> 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 "> >"
> * -> *There are 0 results.
> and so on...
>
> Responses from the http://search.gmane.org
>>>=  Here, too, it seems the script searched for the string "> >"
> * -> *  Here it seems the script searched for the string ">"
> 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
>

You know about Hoogle, right?

kris