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

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:

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

Because Haskell doesn't predate the web? :p

You can build local documentation and access it from ghci with some hooks
(see https://wiki.haskell.org/Ghci#Package_and_documentation_lookup
although it's a bit outdated), but Haskell is not a dynamic language and
ghci is not trying to be its primary developer interface. And you can't
exactly hyperlink on a terminal.

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