Subject: [Biococoa-dev] New Structure for BioCocoa part II

[Philipp Seibel]

Hey Alex,

nice to hear something from the netherlands :-).

Am 03.07.2005 um 13:46 schrieb Alexander Griekspoor:

> - The class cluster design of sequence objects. Is it still  
> necessary, is it correct, flexible? As said, phil and I had  
> problems with it, and phil was not sure if it was implemented fully  
> correct, but he'll chime in I guess

There is a structural failure in our implementation, the user thinks  
he will get a BCSequence object, when he calls a init or convenient  
method of BCSequence, but he gets a BCAbstractSequence. So we have to  
fix the inheritance model.

> . Purely from complexity towards novel users (and people like me  
> who had to get back in again ;-), I would like to see it disappear  
> if possible.

thanks for mention the class cluster problem. Here is a short  
description of my understanding of a class cluster:

A class cluster like NSNumber is intransparent to the user of the  
framework. The user just knows the NSNumber class, but the  
functionality and content of the class depends on the constructor and  
initialization of the class. NSDoubleNumber, NSIntegerNumber etc have  
all private headers, so the user doesn't know the class exists.

---> In our implementation is all visible to the user... (public  
headers for BCSequenceProtein etc.)

I think we should go for a simple superclass class structure not to  
confuse the users of the framework.


cheers,

Phil
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