[Haskell-cafe] Hackage and searching for substrings

Li-yao Xia lysxia at gmail.com
Mon Nov 2 14:35:17 UTC 2020


Hi Magnus,

One approximation of that idea is to use hoogle:

https://hoogle.haskell.org/?hoogle=is%3Apackage%20waar

(note the "is:package" key to avoid looking for identifiers inside packages)

Li-yao

On 11/2/2020 8:23 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:
> 
> Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> writes:
> 
>> Just now I thought I'd check what kind of lib waargonaut is. Being lazy
>> I typed "waarg" into the package search box and found nothing!
>>
>> Is there a way to make Hackage find waargonaut without having to type
>> the full package name?
> 
> Interpreting the responses so far I guess the correct answer to my
> question is "no!"
> 
> /M
> 
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