Aspell .suggest not reciprocal?

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Aspell .suggest not reciprocal? #17

Closed ndvbd closed 5 years ago

ndvbd commented 5 years ago

When doing .suggest('patients'), I don't see patience in the list. But when doing .suggest('patience'), I do see patients in the list.

Why isn't it reciprocal?``

WojciechMula commented 5 years ago

Sorry, don't have a clue how aspell implements its suggestion algorithm. It seems there are some heuristics which manifest in lack of symmetry you observed.

ndvbd commented 5 years ago

Posted an issue here: https://github.com/GNUAspell/aspell/issues/589

WojciechMula commented 5 years ago

@ndvbd OK, so I'm closing the issue.