<div class="gmail_quote">Hi Cafe,<br>It seems, the function names in Haskell libs are not first-class objects, AT LEAST when it comes to searching for them of the net!<br>I was trying to search for the
following Haskell functions in the mailing list archives. Here is a
summary of the responses I have had from various servers upon searching
various "valid and normally used" Haskell function identifiers from well-known libraries.<br clear="all">
<br>Responses from the <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com" target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com</a><br><div style="margin-left:40px"> <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=haskell-cafe%40haskell.org&q=%3E%3E%3D" target="_blank">>>=</a>, It seems the script searched for the string "&<b>gt</b>;
&<b>gt</b>;"<br><a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=haskell-cafe%40haskell.org&q=*+-%3E+*" target="_blank">* -> *</a>There are 0 results.<br>and so on...<br></div> <br>Responses from the <a href="http://search.gmane.org" target="_blank">http://search.gmane.org</a><br>
<div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="http://search.gmane.org/search.php?group=gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe&query=%3E%3E%3D" target="_blank">>>=</a> Here, too, it seems the script searched for the string "&<b>gt</b>;
&<b>gt</b>;"<br><a href="http://search.gmane.org/?query=*+-%3E+*&author=&group=gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe&sort=relevance&DEFAULTOP=and&xFILTERS=Gcomp.lang.haskell.cafe---A" target="_blank">* -> *</a> Here it seems the script searched for the string "&<b>gt</b>;"</div>
<div style="margin-left:40px">and so on...<br></div> <br><b>Note: google badly fails to search these functions identifiers.</b><br><br>My current solution to this problem is: download compressed text archives and do a simple grep on it on my machine.<br>
<br>But the archives up to year 2000 only are found at <a href="http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/" target="_blank">http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/</a>.<br>So, as an aside: Where do I find the earlier messages for downloading?<br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Damodar<br><br>
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