On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Janet Young <jayoung@fhcrc.org> wrote:

> Thanks Michael,
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> On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
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>> So, we could go ahead and add that option.
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> that would be great - thank you.
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>  Not sure "simplify" would be a good word. Or would we want two separate
>> options, one to remove the obvious self hits and another to remove the
>> redundant hits?
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> I think keeping the two options separate is probably better?
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>  Maybe 'ignoreSelf' and then "normalize" or something? Suggestions welcome.
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> good - I think ignoreSelf is very clear (and you're right, simplify isn't
> so good).  "normalize" makes me think of other things - maybe not so good.
> "ignoreSymmetric" perhaps? (only makes sense if query=subject - perhaps
> there could be a check for that if user tries to invoke that option?)
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I don't know about ignoreSymmetric, since we're only ignoring the
redundancy, not the matching itself. Maybe ignoreRedundant?

Also, these parameters will only be for the method where the subject is
missing, so we do not have to do any special checks.

Michael

> Janet
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