closest ?

[brentp]

would you consider adding a closest method to the rust implementation?

[kcleal]

Hi @brentp,
Yes, I'm sure this could be added - could you provide some more details about what you had in mind. Do you just want the closest interval to the query to be returned, or a distance, index, or something else? Also, if the query overlaps some reference intervals do you want the function to return one of these, or are you interested in closest non-overlapping? Thanks!

[brentp]

hi Kez, yeah, I see what you mean, there are a lot of choices. Here's what comes to mind based on my use-case and some generality:

1. what's returned if no overlaps: either the interval(s) or index(es) returned would be great.
2. what's returned if overlaps: all overlapping (intervals or indexes)

so maybe a parameter could indicate the n closest that the user wants and the result always contains all ties.