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* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
* Sergey Prigogin (Google)
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package org.eclipse.cdt.internal.ui.text.spelling.engine;
/**
* Interface of algorithms to compute the phonetic distance between two words.
*/
public interface IPhoneticDistanceAlgorithm {
/**
* Returns the non-negative phonetic distance between two words
*
* @param from
* The first word
* @param to
* The second word
* @return The non-negative phonetic distance between the words.
*/
public int getDistance(String from, String to);
}