Re: [htdig-dev] Re: Re: Release plans?

[Neal R. <ne...@ri...>]

Sounds good to me.

Please make the fix but hold off committing it... see
previous message, I need to do some busy work on the sourceforge site
first.... and we need to wait to hear from anyone with objections ;-)

Thanks.

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Lachlan Andrew wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I have a question about the interpretation of  allow_numbers.
> If  allow_numbers  is false, should digits be considered separators?
> Looking at the code, it seems someone wanted to say that  "3G", "Y2K"
> and "X11" would be words, even if  allow_numbers  is false, because
> they contain at least one letter:
>
>   int alpha = 0;
>   for(const unsigned char *p =
>         (const unsigned char*)(const char*)(char *)word; *p; p++) {
>     if(IsStrictChar(*p) || (allow_numbers && IsDigit(*p))) {
>       alpha = 1;
>     } else if(IsControl(*p)) {
>       return status | WORD_NORMALIZE_CONTROL;
>     }
>   }
>
>   //
>   // Reject if contains no alpha characters
>   //
>   if(!alpha) return status | WORD_NORMALIZE_NOALPHA;
>
>
>
> Current behaviour is to *ignore*  allow_numbers  and to default to
> treating digits as letters [since WORD_TYPE_DIGIT is included in
> IsChar()  and  IsStrictChar()].
>
> I propose the following behaviour:
>
> 1. If  allow_numbers  is true then digits are treated the same as
> extra_word_characters.
> 2. If  allow_numbers  is false, then digits are treated as ("invalid")
> punctuation.
> 3. The default be changed to  allow_numbers=true  (which is
> compatibile with the current buggy default behaviour).
>
> Any objections?
>
> Lachlan
>
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 05:56, Neal Richter wrote:
>
> > Everyone:  Please let me know what kind of time you'd be willing to
> > put in to get this stuff tested??!!
>
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