Fwd: [Biococoa-dev] sequence wrappers

Alexander Griekspoor mek at mekentosj.com
Thu Dec 16 10:53:35 EST 2004


>>> I strongly argue to only implement the first and dump the second...
>>
>>
>> I disagree :). I favor to have just one BCFeatures object (which 
>> maintains a dictionary) instead of many BCFeature objects, each with 
>> one key-value pair. this makes it easy to acces the data:
>
> That exactly goes straight into your "I want lots of small objects 
> instead of one big" ;-)
> Also, what in your vision is a feature then? How do you assign it a 
> range for instance without it being an object?
>>
>> [[mySequence features] featureForKey];
>
> I would propose: [mySequence featureForKey:  ]
> Even simpler ;-)
> Alex
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