[Snowball-discuss] Problem with spanish stemmer

[Martin Porter]

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 12:46 -0300, Ignacio Perez wrote:
> My problem was that I was attempting to modify the generated code ... 

Ah, it is not the first time someone has got into difficulties there.
Perhaps we should include a note in a prominent position on the site
explaining that modifying the generated code is almost impossible. The
reason is that each 'among' gives rise to a delicately constructed table
which ceases to work as soon as a small change is made to its contents.
The advantage of these tables is that they make ending lookup very
efficient. The disadvantage is that they can only be changed by going
back to the snowball source and regenerating them.

Martin