Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:05 AM.

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system.verbs.builtins.searchEngine.checkStopWords

on checkStopWords (s, adrStopWords=@searchEngine.data.stopWords) {
	<<Return false if this word should not be indexed.
		<<The words will have punctuation (apostrophes, dashes) already removed.
		<<A stop words list is a table, for fastest-possible lookup.
	if defined (adrStopWords^.[s]) {
		return (false)}; //don't index this word
	return (true)} //index this word

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.