[Xapian-discuss] word pair indexing and querying

[richard at lemurconsulting.com]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 07:10:18PM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> Perhaps the simplest, cleanest, and most orthogonal API is to just have
> an unary operator which scales the weight of the Query it's applied to?
> There's no particular reason why this should be restricted to OR after
> all.  Internally we can combine that into the operator above if that
> actually helps for implementation.

Yes, that certainly seems like the cleanest API to me.

> I'm not sure such a facility is actually going to help here, but in
> general it might be handy to have sometimes.

Agreed.

-- 
Richard