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non- ◴[] No.42139412[source]
One thing I've always struggled with Math is keeping track of symbols I don't know the name of yet.

Googling for "Math squiggle that looks like a cursive P" is not a very elegant or convenient way of learning new symbol names.

I wish every proof or equation came with a little table that gave the English pronunciation and some context for each symbol used.

It would make it a lot easier to look up tutorials & ask questions.

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1. tombert ◴[] No.42148120[source]
It’s what drives me nuts about people making custom operators on Haskell.

A word is easy to search, but something like “~~>>=>” doesn’t really give anything and it’s not nearly as cute as the writers of the libraries seem to think it is.

I know about Hoogle but that’s not a solution, as that only searches documentation, not stuff like Stackoverflow.

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2. tome ◴[] No.42148235[source]
I randomly chose *> to search for on Google. It does pretty well, and yes, the top result is StackOverflow.

https://www.google.com/search?q=*%3E&iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZzeB...*

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3. tombert ◴[] No.42148314[source]
Huh, fair enough, I feel like that must be recent because I was having trouble with that before, but maybe it was never as bad as I thought it was.

I'll admit I was wrong!