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11
12 package org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.spelling.engine;
13
14 /**
15  * Interface of algorithms to compute the phonetic distance between two words.
16  *
17  * @since 3.0
18  */

19 public interface IPhoneticDistanceAlgorithm {
20
21     /**
22      * Returns the non-negative phonetic distance between two words
23      *
24      * @param from
25      * The first word
26      * @param to
27      * The second word
28      * @return The non-negative phonetic distance between the words.
29      */

30     public int getDistance(String JavaDoc from, String JavaDoc to);
31 }
32
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