[Biococoa-dev] a new design to please everybody

[Peter Schols]

Charles, I like the approach you are proposing. This seems to make a 
lot of sense to me.

I have one question though: if I get it right, the only reason we need 
the strongly typed approach as an extra option to the good-for-all 
BCSequence object is that people will get compiler warnings? Or are 
there additional reasons? To paraphrase Koen, this is an educational 
question, not a critical one ;-)

Best wishes,

Peter


> * at the same time, to please some (yet virtual) users willing to 
> stick to strong typing, I came up with the idea of an additional set 
> of placeholder classes with resticted sets of methods in their 
> headers; in the context of a class cluster, other ideas are possible; 
> and actually, these ideas may apply to the current design too; i was 
> thinking this could be added later anyway to please these yet 
> non-existing users;
> * then I realized yesterday that such users actually existed, and I 
> even could see their point; so now my opinion is that we should indeed 
> give BOTH options to the user, which will please all of us (see above 
> why)
>
> What do you think?
>
> Charles
>
> NB: that's all for today, it is bedtime
>
> -- 
> Charles Parnot
> charles.parnot at stanford.edu
>