"hasSuggestions" API

I’d like to implement a “loose” spell checking mode, where if a word is not correct but there are no suggestions for it then the spell checker doesn’t yell at the user.

I can currently do something like this to check if there are any suggestions:

const hasSuggestions = !!instance.suggest ( word ).length;

But that would compute all possible suggestions, and I don’t really care about having them available to me at that point in time, so I’d like nspell to have a method that allows me to implement that in a much more efficient way, like:

const hasSuggestions = instance.hasSuggestions ( word );

Which more practically would exit early from unnecessary expensive loops like this one:

https://github.com/wooorm/nspell/blob/c92902162193084027a5a8b7259702af90804528/lib/suggest.js#L274-L276

[fabiospampinato]

Does your recent work change your need for this feature? It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me (as the 1st result might be bad)

Not really. But I’ve changed my mind on this a bit, the added confusion of having words highlighted differently depending on if they’ll have any suggestions or not might not be worth it, like I’ve never seen a two-tier spell checker like that 🤔 Plus performance-wise this may backfire even, as suggestions can be memoized, but if you need to know if there are any suggestions before actually computing any of them, and then later on computing them, you’ll be computing the first suggestion twice rather than once essentially.

So let me close this, eventually if I’ll change my mind on this again I’ll submit a PR or something.

[wooorm]

Does your recent work change your need for this feature? It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me (as the 1st result might be bad)