[Snowball-discuss] French stemmer question

[Martin Porter]

Martin,

Olly got in ahead of me in answering this one! But you are right that,
despite every effort for clarity in the algorithm descriptions,
anbiguities of interpretation can arise. On first launching snowball
the algorithm descriptions did contain occasional errors, but these
were picked up and reported by readers in the first few years that
followed (the benefits of open sourcing!). So the descriptions are
trustworthy even if they can occasionally mislead. It's important of
course to compare algorithm descrption with snowball script.

Martin