[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       lucene-user
Subject:    Re: help with boolean expression
From:       Doug Cutting <cutting () apache ! org>
Date:       2005-03-03 18:32:35
Message-ID: 42275843.3060503 () apache ! org
[Download RAW message or body]

Daniel Naber wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 March 2005 12:25, Erik Hatcher wrote:
> 
>>I agree that the current behavior is awkward.  Is it worth breaking
>>backwards compatibility to correct this with the patch applied?
> 
> I'd vote for fixing this as long as the current QueryParser is still available 
> in Lucene core, maybe as OldQueryParser or NoPrecedenceQueryParser. It's 
> surely better to fix it for 2.0 than for 2.x.

+1.  Fixing operator precedence seems to me like an acceptable 
incompatibility.  The change needs to be well documented in release 
notes, and the old QueryParser should be available, deprecated, for a 
time for back-compatibility.

Doug

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscribe@lucene.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-help@lucene.apache.org

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]