[Haskell-beginners] How to check the help page of a function?

[Peng Yu]

Many other languages have help pages in the command (see help() in
python and R). Why haskell doesn't have such a feature?

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl <hjgtuyl at chello.nl> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 May 2015 04:45:43 +0200, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I can not find how to check the help page of a function.
>>
>> For example, I want to check the help page of "head". How should I do
>> it? (":help" doesn't seem to help.)
>
>
> I generally use Hoogle:
>   https://www.fpcomplete.com/hoogle?q=head
> and sometimes Hayoo:
>   http://hayoo.fh-wedel.de/?query=head
>
> Regards,
> Henk-Jan van Tuyl
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Peng