[Biococoa-dev] BCSymbolSet

[Charles PARNOT]

At 21:55 +0100 3/10/05, Alexander Griekspoor wrote:
>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
>

sorry, very short:

* the user should not be able to modify a prebuilt symbol set   [John (and me agree)]
* One should not be able to change the symbolSet of a sequence, that would be disastrous [me]
* all the arguments that usually apply in the mutable vs immutable design, with the added fact that symbol sets are small and thus easy to copy [me; also applies to sequences]

charles

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