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Re:Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml by tylerhou on Thursday August 23, 2018 @05:29PM (#17830846)
But you can always Hoogle for them: https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=%3C%24%3E
Re:Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml by akavel on Friday August 24, 2018 @02:39AM (#17833207)
Oh!

So, first of all, I didn't know about this site, and actually it could have helped. I wish it was mentioned early enough (e.g. when first operators are introduced?) in the tutorial I was reading (Learn You Some H.? Not sure, don't remember now.)

Secondly however, I see it still doesn't mention how to spell the operator. Though I suppose in this particular case "fmap operator" could be acceptable?...

edit: Eh: see for example '>>=' and '>>'. Based on the docs, I could only try to call them both "compose", but they need some differentiation in my mind...

Re:Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml by tylerhou on Friday August 24, 2018 @01:06PM (#17836188)
Yeah, the first one is called `bind`. The second one is a variety of `bind`. But you can just lookup the symbol in Hoogle and it will give you the definition.

You can also lookup a type signature and Hoogle will give you all functions for that type signature. For example, there is only one total function `(a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]` (map) and if you search that Hoogle will show you map, accordingly: https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=%28a+-%3E+b%29+-%3E+%...

Honestly Hoogle for Haskell is better than Google for other languages for finding things.

EDIT: Oh, you can also click to go to the operator docs. For the case of <$>, the docs would tell you that it's an fmap synonym.