Hi > I have a hoogle question. While I was reading the HXT discussion > (below), I tried to search "runX" and "readString" in Hoogle (since I > am new to HXT and Arrows). But neither search yielded any result and I > had to use google to find the Haskell docs. > > So I am wondering what is the scope of Hoogle that people can search?
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hoogle#Scope_of_Searches (new section just added) > Only things in the standard library? Mainly those things distributed with GHC. > How much does it cover in the Hackage? Virtually none. This will change at some point in the future. > I tried to find the scope description in the Tutorial but in > vain. It is fair to say if someone needs to use Hoogle, he/she > probably has no idea what he is looking for, needless to say, what is > in scope of Hoogle or what is not. In general, Hoogle is designed if you want to find a generally applicable function. If you are using HXT, then you probably know whether you want a general function or one that works over the HXT data types/classes/monads etc. I do want to expand Hoogle to search everything on hackage, and to have package specific searches as well, but it requires more coding first. Thanks Neil _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
