True about speed, but I was more thinking about storage space and tolerance to missing words. A complete dictionary would likely be faster.
Brian Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 22, 2022, at 9:07 AM, Craig Newman via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > If you have a database at all, it would cost nothing much in speed to just > use the whole thing all the time. Put the database into an array, of the form: > “cat 1” > "chicken 2” > “elephant 3” > ‘miaou 1" > … > > The hard part is finding that database. It would take quite a while to build > and finalize your own. > > Craig > > >> On Mar 21, 2022, at 10:47 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> Well, you could set up your rules and just database the exceptions. Then >> you at least have a guess for the words that you don’t “know” the answer >> for. If there is a database miss, then use the rule set. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode