[Haskell-beginners] What is operator :| ?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Francesco Ariis <fa-ml at ariis.it> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:54:03AM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
> > More generally, is there some effective way to search for
> > non-alphabetical Haskell things?  Google just ignores the
> > "punctuation".
>
> You can find :| on Hayoo [1], the other handy place where to
> look for APIs stuff being Hoogle [2] (Hoogle is more focused on
> 'standard' Haskell libraries, Hayoo searches in all Hackage,
> both have their usefulness).
> From there, if I need to search, say, a blog post, I will refer
> to the name of the typeclass/module/data and feed it to a search
> engine (so in this case "data NonEmpty etc. etc.").
> Apparently Google ignores punctuation in most cases [3].
>

http://symbolhound.com is useful.

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