Re:Reflecting on Haskell in 2016
by marcosdumay on Monday December 26, 2016 @10:56AM
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> Haskell isn't like C++ or other imperative languages in that you don't have "these are the method you can use on this class. Good chance you can figure it out from there".
No, but for this case, type holes are much more powerful. You always have an I have X, I want Y, what functions are there that are X -> Y?
Hoogle is more powerful than anything I've seen on any other language. (If I could only make it use all the local packages, instead of the pre-built index. I'm sure there's a way.)
Haskell has also more need for documentation than most other languages, so hoogle is still not enough. That's the problem, not lack of docs.
Disclaimer: I'm very much a Haskell noobie