in reply to RFC: A module to evaluate keywords expressions on tag lists.

Neither is particularly compelling.

Having a root namespace "Keywords::" means you can do lots of things with keywords. Is there that much you can do to keywords?

Sounds like it would be better integrated into "Search::" or some other existing top-level namespace.

I would actually prefer if the query parser provided a standard interface that supported multiple query languages. (The one you provided, Google's, etc)

I also have a feeling the matching functionality shouldn't be too heavily integrated.

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by vitoco (Hermit) on Sep 03, 2009 at 20:20 UTC
    Is there that much you can do to keywords?

    I think not, but this module provides a query parser, a regexp builder and some tests methods. Not only the query language is relevant. Also it is the way that a list of keywords is being stored if you want to use some specific options, then a method to clean up the list string is provided. So it's not only a Search thing. That's made me doubt.

    I don't think that "Search::Query" is appropiate, for the same reason as above. May be "Regexp::Keywords"?

    BTW, "Search::Query::Google" made me think on a module to retrieve some results from Google (as "Google::Search")... "Search::Keywords::Google" is not much better, but I got the idea and agree on that.

    I also have a feeling the matching functionality shouldn't be too heavily integrated.

    Could you explain this?

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      Could you explain this?

      If query building is separate from matching, then you'll be able to match against inputs other than a flat string.

      Specifically, only supporting flat strings prevents it from being extended to support "is:unread" or "title:foo"

      I'm not saying you should implement those features. I'm saying it would be great if the designed allowed someone to do so.

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