Re: Remove TermEnum.skipTo(Term target)

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote at Wed, 04 May 2005 20:59:24 GMT:
> I was considering an efficient impl of
TermEnum.skipTo(Term target)  
> for
> the MemoryIndex. But then I realized that nothing
anywhere in Lucene
> calls that method. It's effectively dead code; a
remainder of a
> previous ice age - nothing would break if it would be
removed. I'd
> suggest doing so unless I'm missing something.

So what's up with this method? Did anyone ever figure out
what it is  
used for?

-- 
karl

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Karl Wettin wrote:
> So what's up with this method? Did anyone ever figure
out what it is 
> used for?

I found the origin of it.

It was added in 2004:
   http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=150
206.

This was to fix issue:
   http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18927

But the code was originally written in 2001 (!) by Dmitry
Serebrennikov. 
  The original patch is at:

http://mail-archives.apa
che.org/mod_mbox/lucene-java-dev/200110.mbox/%3c3BCF41C9.608
0306earthlink.net%3e

Doug

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