[Biococoa-dev] BCSymbolSet

[Alexander Griekspoor]

Oh, sorry, I missed parts of the symbolset discussion, but I thought I 
remember having read a strong advocacy (John ?) for a non-mutable 
symbolset...
Never mind...
Alex

On 10-mrt-05, at 21:53, Philipp Seibel wrote:

>> Why NSMutableSet? NSSet contains the needed allObjects method 
>> already...
>> Alex
>
> Because we have a NSMutableSet inside the current BCSymbolSet class. 
> There are also mutability methods, so we need a mutable class.
>
> Phil
>
>>
>> On 10-mrt-05, at 20:43, John Timmer wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>>> i'd like to make the suggestion to make BCSymbolSet a subclass of
>>>>>> NSMutableSet, to get all set features for free. I for example 
>>>>>> need the
>>>>>> allObjects: method for my BCScoringMatrix class.
>>>>> I think we were going to make BCSymbolSet already.  I think the 
>>>>> root
>>>>> class
>>>>> was going to be non-mutable and hold standard sets, like all
>>>>> nucleotides,
>>>>> etc.
>>>>
>>>> Yes i noticed that, but it derives from NSObject, would be cleaner 
>>>> if
>>>> it derives from NS(Mutable)Set. (just my opinion)
>
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