FW: Library infrastructure

Derek Elkins ddarius@hotpop.com
Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:28:23 -0700


On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:00:55 +0200 (MET DST)
Koen Claessen <koen@cs.chalmers.se> wrote:

> Simon Marlow wrote:
> 
>  | But seriously, the "non-standard" libraries are, at
>  | the moment, far better documented than the standard
>  | ones (where "standard" means those libraries defined
>  | by the Haskell 98 report and their hierarchical
>  | equivalents).  The example you gave, Data.List.nub, is
>  | a function from the standard Haskell 98 List library.
> 
> I have a suggestion: can the "documentation" for these
> libraries contain a link to the place where they are defined
> in the Haskell report?
> 
> /Koen

This slightly relates to Johannes Waldmann's reply (the reference is
indexed by type too); there's a fairly good start to a reference of
the standard Haskell 98 prelude at
http://zvon.org/other/haskell/Outputglobal/index.html .