[Biococoa-dev] Should we choose?

[Charles PARNOT]

>On Jan 12, 2005, at 1:41 AM, Charles PARNOT wrote:
>
>>Wow, it looks like we get a nice unanimous agreement! I guess I 
>>will have to write the (very little) code needed for 
>>BCSequenceGeneric, now that I bragged so much about it. BTW, is the 
>>naming OK? I was tempted to propose simply BCSequence for the 
>>generic subclass, but I think in the end, BCSequenceGeneric (or 
>>something equivalent) could carry more sense and be clearer for 
>>everybody, particularly if living with other subclasses. And 
>>keeping the superclass name to BCSequence is also more consistent 
>>with the class hierarchy. OK, I know, I am just arguing with 
>>myself, here.
>
>Actually, I would prefer the name BCSequence for what the user will 
>use, which is BCSequenceGeneric in your proposal, right? We can then 
>rename BCSequence to something like BCAbstractSequence, or even 
>promote the current BCSymbolList to that role.

I don't really have an preference on this (I have contradictory 
thoughts that cancel each other), so I will let you guys decide.


>
>>
>>Next issues are:
>>* annotations (a new ivar in the superclass, and a category of the 
>>superclass for the implementation??)
>
>IIRC, I think we already agreed to make a BCAnnotation class, and 
>put an ivar to it in the superclass.
>

OK, I was not sure, hence the question marks.
I am complete newbie in the whole annotation discussion anyway, so I 
will just try to catch up as it goes...

Charles



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