Re: [Exist-open] near() behavior in snapshot20051026

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Wolfgang Meier skrev:
>>>When the $some-term keywords consists of a single keyword, it fails.
>>>It used to not fail on snapshot 20050805.  However when the keywords
>>>consist of multiple keywords (more than 1), it works.
>>
>>But why would you ever want to pass a single keyword to "near"?  I don't see
>>how that can be a sensible thing to do. I can see this would make sense if
>>$some-term had the value "John Doe", but then that's not a single term. If
>>eXist's near() did indeed use to return matches when near() was fed a single
>>token as its second parameter instead of the string of tokens that its
>>signature specifies, that would be a pretty bad bug; and code reliant on
>>bugs is always doomed.
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> 
> I'm not sure I understand you here, Michael. I would indeed regard it
> as a bug if near(., "John") stopped returning matches while near(.,
> "John Doe") does ...

I agree fully with Michael here. This one token use of near() is neither
syntactically nor semantically acceptable.

Leif-Jöran
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