[Haskell-beginners] Module name from a function name?

[Jong-won Choi]

Hi Karl,

Then let me change my question; how can I get all the module names which 
(re-)export a given function name?

I can make my Emacs Lisp code work if I can get a list of all such 
module names.

Thanks!

- Jong-won

2013-07-25 ?? 2:49, Karl Voelker ? ?:
> The problem is that length is defined in GHC.List and simple 
> re-exported by Data.List (and by Prelude).
>
> You could try tying into a command-line installation of Hoogle. A 
> quick search for "length" on the Hoogle website shows that it finds it 
> in both Prelude and Data.List.
>
> -Karl
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Jong-won Choi 
> <oz.jongwon.choi at gmail.com <mailto:oz.jongwon.choi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I am self-teaching Haskell and also try to fix a slightly broken Emacs
>     mode for Haskell.
>
>     I'd like to browse Haskell documentation from Emacs - C-c C-d on a
>     function name, say.
>
>     Current Emacs Lisp Haskell mode implementation uses return value of
>     ':info', for example, GHC.List for length (the function name I want to
>     browse).
>     Unfortunately, this does not work because Glasgow Haskell's HTML doc
>     uses module name Data.List(i.e. Data-List.html) instead of GHC.List.
>
>     I'd like to get 'Data.List' from 'length'. How can I do this?
>
>     For example, if it is Common Lisp, this can be achieved by:
>     (symbol-package 'length)
>
>     One more thing. I think :info command is only for GHC. Is there any
>     portable ways which will work on other implementations as well?
>
>     Thanks!
>
>     - Jong-won Choi
>
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