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


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