[Biococoa-dev] more ramblings

Alexander Griekspoor mek at mekentosj.com
Fri Dec 3 17:11:45 EST 2004


Op 3-dec-04 om 23:08 heeft John Timmer het volgende geschreven:

>
>>>
>>> BTW, what's the difference between 'strict', 'skippingnonbases' and
>>> 'unambiguous' ?
>> Basically they're the same thing, and yes, we should rename them to be
>> similar I think...
>
> I'm largely sitting this discussion out (my boss just sent in her 
> latest
> revisions to my paper, so I'll be sitting it out for the near future as
> well), but just to prove I am paying some attention:
>
> Strict and unambiguous would be the same - all symbols represent a 
> single
> entity.  SkippingNonBases isn't - that's what the "undefined" 
> character is
> for.  It is used when a character doesn't represent a symbol, 
> ambiguous or
> otherwise.
Oh yes, sorry that's true...
>
> Renaming the concepts is fine, but we need at least two of the concepts
> around (3 if you count the opposite of unambiguous as a separate 
> concept).
Well, if you feed a boolean "strict" you have the two opposite concepts 
already...
Alex

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