Make sure result types and argument types are distinguished

[adius]

I just accidentally landed on hoogle.haskell.org and was really confused why the results are so bad. Until (after way too much googling) I realized I that hoogle.haskell.org is some kind of alpha version and haskell.org/hoogle is the real deal.

Can you please rename this URL or remove it entirely? It doesn't feel very Haskell like to give me URLs without type safety 😂.

[ndmitchell]

The new hoogle.haskell.org is much better in many ways, and the plan is to switch over to it. Could you detail some of the queries you tried that gave you much worse results? I assume all type-based searches?

[adius]

Ah OK ^^

Yes, I guess they were all type based

[ndmitchell]

Concrete examples of what you tried would be handy as then I can focus on fixing those first.

[adius]

Just really simple things like String -> Int. Only the last entry is really String -> Int all the others are Int -> String 🙈

[ndmitchell]

OK, that's probably fairly simple to fix.

[adius]

(However, the issue still stands. Then the haskell.org/hoogle URL should be renamed / redirected.)

[adius]

It's just crazy that they look the same and have equally official URLs.

[ndmitchell]

Yep, agreed - redirecting the old to the new is something on my todo list! Unfortunately a few jobs got in the way so the situation has persisted years longer than I hoped.