From: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:55:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Fwd: possible Improving diff algoritm
Message-ID: <CANv4PNnC1J54TSpHuBOpY=rbuU_naysYkmoyi=utNF0vWK1CnA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vpq2f2az4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

>> Is there a reason why picking among the choices in a sliding window
>> must be contents neutral?
>
> Sorry, you might be getting at something interesting but I do not
> understand the question.  I have no idea what you mean by "contents
> neutral".

I was merely asking if an algorithm to pick between the
2+ choices was allowed to look at the contents of the
lines.

I.e., an algorithm would look at the C comment
example and determine that the choice starting containing
a full inserted comment is preferable over the one that
appears to close one comment and open a new.

And the in inserted-function case it would prefer the one
where the matching { and } are in correct order.

Morten