Talk:Boyer–Moore–Horspool algorithm
I'm not native to the C programming language and I don't have time to start sifting through the code in this article to develop a pseudocode representation of this algorithm.
Can someone who knows C better than I please read through and put the code into something cross-platform?
--Oddb411 13:01, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
- C is actually a cross-platform language when written properly. The sample I wrote is meant to be of that kind. I'll see if I can edit it to use less of the kind of syntax that is inherent to C to make it better understood for those who don't have experience of languages of C origin. --Bisqwit 21:00, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
variable names
Many programmers (Wiki:MeaningfulName) now recommend "Always, always, always use good, unabbreviated, correctly-spelled meaningful names." Is there some more meaningful name we could use instead of "hpos" ?
In the Boyer-Moore algorithm article, the "hpos" variable tracks the position where a copy of the needle might possibly start in the haystack, although we generally look at some later position in the haystack. (What would be a more meaningful name for this?)
In this Boyer–Moore–Horspool algorithm article, the "hpos" variable tracks the actual letter in the haystack that we look at. (What would be a more meaningful name for this?)
(The difference is precisely
BMH_hpos = BM_hpos + npos
).
I think doing it the same way in both articles would be less confusing. Which way (the current BM way, or the current BMH way) would make clearer, easier-to-understand code?