Ulrich Mayring writes: > Daniel Naber wrote: > > > > AND always refers to the terms on both sides, +/- only refers to the term > > on the right. So "a AND b" -> "+a +b" is correct. > > *slap forehead* - you're right. Wasn't there something about operator > precedence way back when.... ;-) > Yes. January. And it's still in bugzilla. :-(
But it would not make a difference in this case, since AND has higher precedence, so a OR b AND c is a OR (b AND c) which is correctly done as a (+b +c) in boolean queries. a +b +c is different, since it won't find documents containing only a. Occurences of a only modify score in this case. Morus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
