| Frankly, this makes me wonder whether we should change the output | produced for loops. The current error is essentially un-Googleable, as | we see here. I know I have personally struggled with this same issue in | the past.
I'd be fine with that. <<loop>> is pretty cryptic. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: Ben Gamari <b...@well-typed.com> | Sent: 15 June 2020 18:50 | To: Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com>; GHC developers <ghc- | d...@haskell.org> | Subject: Re: Search in GitLab | | Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <ghc-devs@haskell.org> writes: | | > Does anyone know how to search better in GitLab. | > Currently I'm using the standard GitLab search. I'm searching for | > "<<loop>>" | > where I intend the quotes meaning exactly that string as usual in a | search term. But I get lots of results mentioning loop, without the angle | brackets. | > Moreover I want to sort the results by date or ticket number, and I | can't see how to do that. | > Does Google index our repo? Can I use Google to search it somehow? | | Indeed this is a hard query. It appears that the tokenizer used by | GitLab (or perhaps Elasticsearch, which is responsible for full-text | indexing) considers the angle-brackets to be token delimiters (which I | suppose is fair given that usually you see them used to signify | less-than/greater-than operators). | | Google seems to be slightly better, returning only 10 hits. If this | isn't sufficient and the query is important I could run a query against | the database directly if you would like. | | Frankly, this makes me wonder whether we should change the output | produced for loops. The current error is essentially un-Googleable, as | we see here. I know I have personally struggled with this same issue in | the past. | | Richard, I checked on Google Search Console and it appears to be | indexed on a nearly-daily basis. I'm a bit surprised that you have been | having trouble. Do you have a specific example of a query that you have | been disappointed by in the past? | | Cheers, | | - Ben _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
