purescript / purescript/pursuit

Searching for deprecated libraries should return something

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Description

Referring to the purescript book issue 259

search for readFloat returns nothing, because Global is deprecated
To be more specific searching

readFloat

which returns nothing
and the searching for

readFloat()

(I added the brackets thinking, maybe search only work on functions if you add brackets)
return a lot of irrelevant results

I think the search behavior should be more reasonable
And it should not return nothing

I think ideally it should return the correct result but clearly flag it as deprecated

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Research direction

The issue names no file, test, or entry point. Begin by locating the search handling for readFloat and deprecated Global entries; done means deprecated results are discoverable and clearly marked without irrelevant readFloat() matches.

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Assessment

Tech stack
haskell
Domain
search
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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