Function names in Haskell lib not first-class on web!
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 >>=<http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=haskell-cafe%40haskell.org&q=%3E%3E%3D>, It seems the script searched for the string "&*gt*; &*gt*;" * -> *<http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=haskell-cafe%40haskell.org&q=*+-%3E+*>There are 0 results. and so on... Responses from the http://search.gmane.org >>=<http://search.gmane.org/search.php?group=gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe&query=%3E%3E%3D> Here, too, it seems the script searched for the string "&*gt*; &*gt*;" * -> *<http://search.gmane.org/?query=*+-%3E+*&author=&group=gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe&sort=relevance&DEFAULTOP=and&xFILTERS=Gcomp.lang.haskell.cafe---A> Here it seems the script searched for the string "&*gt*;" 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
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:21 PM, damodar kulkarni <kdamodar2000@gmail.com> 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
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:21 PM, damodar kulkarni <kdamodar2000@gmail.com>wrote:
Note: google badly fails to search these functions identifiers.
http://symbolhound.com/ -- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
thanks for the symbolhound link. @Kristopher: I knew hoogle to some extent, not an expert user though. and, it seems, the "hoogle plugin for firefox" works only for haskell.org Damodar On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com>wrote:
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:21 PM, damodar kulkarni <kdamodar2000@gmail.com
wrote:
Note: google badly fails to search these functions identifiers.
-- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
On 1 September 2012 01:11, damodar kulkarni <kdamodar2000@gmail.com> wrote:
I knew hoogle to some extent, not an expert user though. and, it seems, the "hoogle plugin for firefox" works only for haskell.org
Because Hoogle indexes the packages on Hackage. Where else can it find it Haskell source code? If I understand correctly, Hoogle (and Hayoo) directly parse the Haskell source code rather than being a search engine in the Google sense. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com
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