I am teaching a course on functional programming using Hugs98 and
Simon Thompson's textbook (combined with a set of notes I wrote a few
years ago).
One of my students (an excellent programmer but who is new to
functional programming) complained to me today about the lack of
comprehensive and comprehensible reference documentation on the
"standard" Haskell and Hugs libraries. When he goes searching for
functionality that is possibly in the library, he has difficulty
finding the functions because of the lack of a good index and if he
does find something, the documentation tends to be terse and cryptic
for the relatively new Haskell programmer. I tend to agree with him!
Have we overlooked something that has been produced in the
Haskell/Hugs community?
An index would be quite helpful. Also reference documents along the
lines of the Javadoc-generated pages for Java APIs would be useful.
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