[Snowball-discuss] Multiple errors in generated Java sources for Latin algorithm

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Wed Jun 6 22:32:36 BST 2018


On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 08:03:35AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> There's still a remaining issue though, which I think is due to a known
> issue with $ applied to a string variable that we noticed recently while
> working on merging the new Go backend, and I think affects all the
> backends except the C one.  The problematic construct doesn't feature in
> any of the included stemmers, but the Latin stemmer uses it.
> 
> I don't see an easy way to change the stemmer code to avoid this, and
> really it makes more sense to direct effort towards fixing the bug with
> $ applied to a string.  Backends should all support the language
> correctly.

I've since fixed $ on strings for all backends - Java was fixed in June
2017, and the final one was Javascript in March 2018.

Cheers,
    Olly



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