Re: Porter extension cleaned up

It probably will, 'cause that makes much more sense. Originally it just returned a string containing "-1" back when it wasn't a PHP extension, when it was just a C++ library, and you know how much C++ loves strong typing. But that isn't the case now, so returning false now to PHP would make more sense. J Andrei Zmievski wrote: > On Wed, 05 Dec 2001, J Smith wrote: >> >> After seeing my name in lights on the weekly PHP summary, I decided to go >> back into that Porter extension I had wrote about earlier and clean >> things up a bit. >> >> I stripped out all of the C++ stuff to make it a bit of an easier fit >> with PHP's C code (and it seems to be running slightly faster to boot). >> >> For now, it can only stem English language words, but after reading some >> interesting work by Dr. Porter at snowball.sourceforge.com, I'm thinking >> I'll start adding more languages soon. (Most notably, since I work on a >> Canadian web application, Francais is forthcoming.) >> >> For now, the prototype of the lone function in the extension is >> >> string porter(string word) >> >> which takes a word, uppercases it, removes and suffixes and returns the >> word's stem, or "-1" on any sort of failure. (I'm thinking just to >> return >> the word itself, uppercased and unchanged if there's some sort of failure >> -- comments?) > > Why not return FALSE? > > -Andrei > > "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." > -- Wolfgang Pauli