Hey Peter, One possible rational is:
Most any english document will contain lowercase 'and's and 'or's it its text content. Granted they may be poor choices for search query strings and may be frequently filtered out at index-time, however they shouldn't necessarily be forcefully denied as search text content. Uppercase 'AND' and 'OR' are much less likely to occur and are therefore much better candidates for boolean operators. (Sorry for the delayed response...perhaps better late than never...) -Brandon Jockman ISOGEN International, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lucene Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 5:05 PM Subject: Rationale for having boolean operators as ALL CAPS > Hi, > > Can someone tell me the rationale for having the boolean operator only work > if they are all caps? > > Thanks > > --Peter > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
