comp.lang.ruby

Ken Bloom

10/16/2006 1:43:00 PM

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:40:07 +0900, Carlos wrote:

> Minkoo wrote:
>
>> Hi list.
>>
>> I read an article posted at Wikipedia about Levenshtein distance (aka edit
>> distance).
>> The location of the document is
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtei...
>>
>> In the document, a sample Ruby code goes like the following:
>>
>> class String
>> def levenshtein(comparator)
> [...]
>> In the code, there's a parameter called comparator which seems to be
>> used to
>> decode given parameter. But, I can't understand what exactly the comparator
>> is doing.
>
> I didn't examine the code, but I'd guess... you want the L. distance
> between two strings. One is self, and the other is the parameter named
> "comparator".

I have now renamed the variable to "other" for clarity.

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Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
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