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

[Kim-Ee Yeoh]

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 6:18 AM, 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?
>

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.

As Brandon explained, ghci isn't meant to be the
everything-and-the-kitchen-sink development environment.

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!

-- Kim-Ee
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