FW: Library infrastructure

[Mark Carroll]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Simon Marlow wrote:
(snip)
> I don't think that's entirely fair.  Most of the libraries that come
> with GHC (and Hugs, and soon Nhc) are documented.  See for example
>
>   http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/base/index.html

Maybe I just always need awkward ones, but all I usually see here is a
couple of general sentences for a module and a bunch of function names and
type signatures. Even basic things like Data.List.nub,
System.Random.split, etc. don't have any sort of explanation: you're left
looking at real documentation, or experimenting with your guesses that
were insprired by the type signature, to find out what the functions
actually do.

I am *not* complaining: I am very grateful for what GHC does offer and
would love to have some time to help document stuff. But how the stuff at
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/base/index.html can be thought
of as being reasonable documentation, I've no idea! (-:

-- Mark