[Biococoa-dev] more ramblings

[Alexander Griekspoor]

Op 4-dec-04 om 0:17 heeft Koen van der Drift het volgende geschreven:

>
> On Dec 3, 2004, at 5:33 PM, Alexander Griekspoor wrote:
>
>>> No. What I proposed was that a wrapper class (eg BCTranslate) first 
>>> checks the sequence type. If it can handle it, it will continue, if 
>>> not, it will return nil (or an empty NSArray or whatever).
>> Ok, but then it can in principle handle general BCSequences as well 
>> ;-)
>
> Exactly!!!   See, no reason to subclass BCSequence :D
LOL, as said let's see where the evolution of our framework is heading 
to ;-)
>
>
>> methodnames should include the things they return (IF they return 
>> something of course), so if you would have findSubstring it wouldn't 
>> make sense, and actually neither really does findRangeOfSubstring: 
>> but I could live with the latter...
>
> Actually, BCFindSequence returns an NSArray of ranges, so that would 
> become:
>
> arrayOfRangesOfSubstring
Ouch, that's awful, I believe nsstring uses something like 
occurencesOfString, but a find prefix would maybe do an even better 
job...
Cheers,
Alex

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