hrm... that is a problem.  Though, I think that's a case of how the
compiled expression is built from user input.  Unless I'm mistaken

  a + ( foo1 | foo2 )

is exactly equal to

  (a + foo1) | (a + foo2)


Ahhh... but then there is the more complex example of

  a + foonish + bar

becoming

  a + (foo1 | foo2) + bar

.... but I guess that could be

(a + foo1 + bar) | (a + foo2 + bar)

That a simple case, what about languages as norwegian or german? They has compound words and ispell dictionary can split them to lexemes. But, usialy there is more than one variant of separation:

forbruksvaremerkelov
        forbruk vare merke lov
        forbruk vare merkelov
        forbruk varemerke lov
        forbruk varemerkelov
        forbruksvare merke lov
        forbruksvare merkelov
(notice: I don't know translation, just an example. When we working on compound word support we found word which has 24 variant of separation!!)

So, query 'a + forbruksvaremerkelov' will be awful:

a + ( (forbruk & vare & merke & lov) | (forbruk & vare & merkelov) | ... )

Of course, that is examle just from mind, but solution of phrase search should work reasonably with such corner cases.
        


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