[Biococoa-dev] BCSequenceRecord

[Alexander Griekspoor]

>> Anyway, we already had that discussion and the bottom line was:  
>> the annotations would be just one ivar = 4 bytes when nil,  
>> slightly more when empty dictionary, which is anyway very small  
>> compared to the sequence array of char.
>>
>
> I am suggesting to keep the annotations outside the BCSequence  
> class.  BCSequence is only a sequence of symbols nothing more,  
> nothing less. BCSequenceRecord (only one class, no subclasses) is  
> basically a dictionary with all the key-value pairs from a IO file  
> and has-a BCSequence. in one of the key-value pairs.

Well, i certainly hope BCSequence is more than a sequence of symbols,  
otherwise just use NSArray....
Alex

*********************************************************
                     ** Alexander Griekspoor **
*********************************************************
              The Netherlands Cancer Institute
              Department of Tumorbiology (H4)
         Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX, Amsterdam
                    Tel:  + 31 20 - 512 2023
                    Fax:  + 31 20 - 512 2029
                   AIM: mekentosj at mac.com
                    E-mail: a.griekspoor at nki.nl
                Web: http://www.mekentosj.com

     Claiming that the Macintosh is inferior to Windows
     because most people use Windows, is like saying
     that all other restaurants serve food that is
     inferior to McDonalds

*********************************************************

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.bioinformatics.org/pipermail/biococoa-dev/attachments/20050709/c3b01e5d/attachment.html>