[Biococoa-dev] NSMutableData vs malloc

[Charles Parnot]

On Jul 10, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote:

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> On Jul 10, 2005, at 6:28 PM, John Timmer wrote:
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>
>> Change unichar methods in BCSymbol classes to use unsigned char's
>> Change SymbolSet methods to handle unsigned char's
>> Add an NSMutableData ivar to BCSequence hold the char array
>> Modify BCSequence initialization methods to create the char array
>> Add new methods to BCSequence to start working with the unsigned  
>> chars
>>
>>
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> I think it should go into BCAbstractSequence, correct?  Also why  
> not use const char and NSData, since BCSequence is immutable?
>
> Other than that, go for it and we'll clean up the mess :)
>
> cheers,
>
> - Koen.

I know you mentioned it before, but why are you saying that  
BCSequence is immutable? So far, it has always been mutable, and if  
we are going to have just one option, it should be the mutable one. I  
believe many of the others agree?

charles


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