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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | Re: Add some aliases for re-related functions |
Date: | Sun, 3 May 2020 19:50:23 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 |
On 03.05.2020 19:42, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
I said up-thread, and I repeat: all of the measures to make the potential number of hits larger will backfire as long as we don't have a good scoring system that almost always puts the most probable hits in the first dozen.
Please don't assume your usage-based scoring idea is going to be good for everyone. Some like that, some don't.
In fact, it's going to be _terrible_ for discovering an API, simply because the user hasn't already used something he's looking for, yet.
> No, I don't have an algorithm for that; I'm not an expert in this field. But I do know it's possible, because I see it every day when I search the Internet.In the meantime, we have a few existing filtering/scoring algorithms that people use already. And the request for prefix-based naming is borne out of that usage.
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