IMHO, using "cat cat?" or even "cat cat? cat??" is so simple that it doesn't justify keeping the old, undocumented, arguably incorrect behavior.
Regards, Tiago Silveira -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Terry Steichen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 05:10 An: java-dev@lucene.apache.org Betreff: Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available 1) Having a simple way to match singular and plural forms of a term with a single wildcard expression is quite useful. 2) The trailing '?' behavior has been present since that wildcard was first introduced. Why not provide a flag to allow the original behavior to optionally be preserved? 3) The fact that virtually no one objected to the original behavior suggests that few if any were confused by it. Chris Hostetter wrote: >: In either case, what I'm arguing is that the current behavior makes more >: sense in the real world of query expressions (that is, makes the most >: common query expressions simpler), so why not continue it? > >I disagree with that statment. People familiar with shell globing are >going to be confused if "riot??????????????????????" matches "riot" and >"riotXXX". > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
