Peter,

I think it could be your expectations, presuming that not has high
precedence and we can look at it as Boolean / set logic.

~foo ^ ~bar  ==> intersection of all items that are not foo with all items
that are not bar
~ (foo ^ bar) ==> complement (not) of all items that are both (intersection
of) foo and bar


Truth table:
foo | bar | ~foo^~bar | ~(foo ^ bar)
----+-----+-----------+---------------
T   | T   | F         | F
T   | F   | F         | T
F   | T   | F         | T
F   | F   | T         | T

Would that thinking actually carry through to swish-e? I did review
http://swish-e.org/docs/swish-search.html before posting, but it tries to be
helpful rather than theoretical :)

Dave
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Dave Brown
dave@davidhbrown.us


-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces@lists.swish-e.org
[mailto:users-bounces@lists.swish-e.org] On Behalf Of Peter Karman
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 3:26 PM
To: Swish-e Users Discussion List
Subject: [swish-e] query syntax question

Hi.

Would you expect these 2 queries to swish-e to act the same?

swishdefault=(not foo not bar)
not swishdefault=(foo bar)

They don't. I am looking for a sanity check as to whether (a) my
expectations are out of whack and/or (b) there is a bug in the query parser.

thanks.

-- 
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