Haskell search engines

By Hans Nowak · January 15, 2009 at 10:49 am · Tags:

I didn’t know this, but there are two specialized search engines for Haskell: Hoogle and Hayoo!. Both of them allow you to search for Haskell functions by name or type signature.

Unlike its general-purpose counterpart, Hayoo seems to return the best results. For example, you can look for all packages that have a function foldl, or for the functions in the Data.Tree.AVL package.

Now if we only had such a beast for Python… :-)

2 Comments

  1. Juri Pakaste said,

    January 16, 2009 @ 3:08 am

    For some reason, I have a feeling a search engine that looks up Python code by type signature isn’t going to happen soon.

  2. Hans Nowak said,

    January 16, 2009 @ 9:02 am

    Well no, not by type signature… although 3.0 does have the type annotation thing going on…

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