On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:11:36AM -0800, Doug Cutting wrote: > The 'type' field of Token would be a good place for Part-of-Speech. > Does that work for you? If not, perhaps we should make Token non-final. > > As has been discussed before, Lucene uses final for two reasons. The > first is historical: long ago it used to make things faster by > permitting javac to inline things. The second is that some classes are > not designed to be subclassed, e.g., subclassing Field or Document will > generally cause more confusion than it will simplify an application. > The problem is sometimes determining which case is which. > > Doug
Wouldn't it worth to define an "Object data" general purpose free field for the Token? I'm using type to hold some "A = B" type properties, but in general this is neither convenient nor scales well. incze --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
