<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Peng Yu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pengyu.ut@gmail.com" target="_blank">pengyu.ut@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":2h9" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">Many other languages have help pages in the command (see help() in<br>
python and R). Why haskell doesn't have such a feature?</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">You could flip the question around and ask, why do Python and R insist on incorporating emacs functionality in their REPLs instead of keeping things orthogonal. Otherwise, there's a lot of repetition.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">As Brandon explained, ghci isn't meant to be the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink development environment.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It used to be that someone starting Haskell would have learned Unix and its ethos beforehand. That's not a ding against you, btw, just an observation that ghci was designed in an earlier era. Patches to ghci are most welcome!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">-- Kim-Ee</div></div>
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