[Haskell-cafe] Searched for mdo on haskell.org. Found nothing.

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Thu Nov 22 14:34:45 EST 2007


Dougal Stanton wrote:
> On 22/11/2007, Richard Kelsall <r.kelsall at millstream.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Did I do something wrong when searching haskell.org?
>>     
>
> You didn't use Google first? ;-)
>
> Seriously though, using the search box at haskell.org seems to be a
> dead loss. I'm sure this has come up in the past.
>   

In general, I find *most* search functions to be fairly unhelpful. 
Google is the shining exception to this rule; it almost always seems to 
figure out what you're after.

I guess doing text searching is just a fundamentally difficult problem, 
and the guys at Google have spent a hell of a long time on it.



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