Markus: "What about hoogle/hayoo and hackage?" Antoine: "Do you have any links to examples that we should imitate?"
Hackage is notionally similar to the Java API documentation at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/ But Hackage "Documentation" pages typically only give syntax, while Java pages invariably summarize semantics. This makes a world of difference. The quality of the summaries bespeaks a lot of editorial attention above and beyond culling annotations from source code. Considerable care has been taken in describing the GHC library at http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/ but even there one can find absolute mystery entries like http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/haskell98-2.0.0.1/Locale.html Doug > It is hard to find one's way in this ecosystm. It needn't be, > as Java illustrates. To my mind Java's great contribution to the > world is its library index--light years ahead of typical > "documentation" one finds at haskell.org, which lacks the guiding > hand of a flesh-and-blood librarian. In this matter, it > seems, industrial curation can achieve clarity more easily than > open source. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
