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Subject: RE: [search-ws] Scan: another approach


> Sorry, but startRecord and position are not the same thing.  They look
> the same when you keep using the value 1, but when do a scan asking for
> ten terms with my term in the 5th position, it's very different.
> 
> The naïve user, when seeing a request with start=5, max=10 will expect
> something completely different from what I expect when I say
> position=5, numTerms=10.

Well, yes because start=5, max=10 is not the equivalent request to position=5,numTerms=10

start= -5, max=10 is the equivalent to position=5,numTerms=10

Matthew


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