Improving library documentation

If you find standard library documentation lacking in any way, please log it here. At the minimum record what library/module/function isn't properly documented. Please also suggest how to improve the documentation, in terms of examples, explanations and so on.

Example:

   package base
   Data.List
   unfoldr

   An example would be useful. Perhaps:

       -- A simple use of unfoldr:
       --
       -- > unfoldr (\b -> if b == 0 then Nothing else Just (b, b-1)) 10
       -- >  [10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1]
       --

dons 00:31, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

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General Haddock

I wish haddock generated a link to the parent module when it creates the page for a given module. I may implement this myself, but I wanted to make sure this wishlist item was recorded somewhere :) Dagit 08:49, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

base

   package base
   Data.Array.IO and Data.Array.MArray
   descriptions

   An example would be usefull.  Arrays can be very difficult when you see
   them the very first time ever with the assumption that you want to try 
   them right now and that Haskell is a relatively new to you. Maybe something 
   like this could be added into the descriptions of the array-modules.

   module Main where
   
   import Data.Array.IO
   
   -- Replace each element with 1/i, where i is the index starting from 1.
   -- Loop uses array reading and writing.
   loop :: IOUArray Int Double -> Int -> Int -> IO ()
   loop arr i aLast  
       | i > aLast = return ()
       | otherwise = do
            val <- readArray arr i
            writeArray arr i (val / (1+fromIntegral i))
            loop arr (i+1) aLast

    main = do
       arr <- newArray (0,9) 1.0   -- initialise an array with 10 doubles.
       loop arr 0 9                -- selfmade loop over elements
       arr <- mapArray (+1) arr    -- a map over elements
       elems <- getElems arr
       putStrLn $ "Array elements: " ++ (show elems)

    Isto 14:43, 26 November 2006 (UTC)