Le 18/01/2014 16:04, Benedikt Ritter a écrit : > About putting this into codec: I still don't think this is a good fit for > this contribution. Codec is about, well decoding and encoding stuff. Jaro > Winkler and Levenshtein Distance are more like scores or metrics that help > in comparing strings.
The point is, string metrics and soundex algorithm are often used to find similarities between words. That's a bit odd to have them in separate packages. That being said, string metrics doesn't look like a good fit for codec since it doesn't encode anything. Emmanuel Bourg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
