[Haskell-cafe] Proposal: simple interface to libraries Haddock

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi David,

> I realise it's similar. I don't they fulfill quite the same aim
> though. Hoogle might give me two dozen results when I roughly know the
> name of a function, but this isn't what I want.

hoodoc doesn't, it gives you the exact result.

> The main reason this is hard at the moment, incidentally, is that the
> package name (which you can't guess from just the name of the
> function) is encoded into the Haddock docs URL.

If this is what you want, this is what Hoogle 4 shall have! It is
purely a question of a very very light interface around Hoogle -
absolutely all the code is already there.

Thanks

Neil