[Biococoa-dev] Update

Koen van der Drift kvddrift at earthlink.net
Sat Feb 26 13:15:34 EST 2005


On Feb 26, 2005, at 10:20 AM, John Timmer wrote:

> Now, BCSymbol has the methods that handle representing multiple 
> symbols, and
> these relationships are initialized in that class as needed.  
> BCNucleotide
> has the complements, and they're initialized there as needed.  So, in 
> the
> end, there's not a need to call super - you can do a complement without
> knowing the representations and vice versa.
>

But what if I want to know both the complement and the representations? 
I don't see any reason not to call the super method, as is the purpose 
of inheritance.

- Koen.




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