[Haskell-cafe] Hoogle is great but ...

David Virebayre dav.vire+haskell at gmail.com
Mon Oct 26 04:28:20 EDT 2009


On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Curt Sampson <cjs at starling-software.com> wrote:
> But zaxis, here's another thing to look at. There's usually a "view
> source" link beside most of the functions that come up in the Haddock
> documentation to which Hoogle links. It's worth clicking. You would be
> surprised (certainly I was!) at how often looking at the definition
> of a function suddenly makes it quite clear what it does, when the
> description didn't quite do it for you. (This is one of the joys of
> Haskell.)

I tried that with parsec 3, my brain exploded :)


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