[Biococoa-dev] Sequence factory

[Alexander Griekspoor]

Just a quick note on this, and than my reply to the latest email to not 
skip back in the discussion...

Op 24-dec-04 om 17:10 heeft Koen van der Drift het volgende geschreven:
> I thought a little bit more about how to implement this. Which class 
> should actually contain this code? Right now the code
>
>  + (BCSequenceDNA *) dnaSequenceWithString: (NSString *)entry 
> skippingNonBases: (BOOL)skip {
>      BCSequenceDNA *theReturn = [[BCSequenceDNA alloc] initWithString: 
> entry skippingNonBases: skip];
>      return [theReturn autorelease];
>  }
>
>
> is already in place in BCSequenceDNA (and similar ones in other 
> subclasses of BCSequence). Alex, are you proposing to replace this 
> with somthing like:
>
>  + (BCSequenceDNA *) dnaSequenceWithString: (NSString *)entry 
> skippingNonBases: (BOOL)skip
>  {
> 	BCSequenceFactory	*factory = [BCSequenceFactory 
> sharedSequenceFactory];
> 	
> 	BCSequenceDNA *theReturn = [factory 
> sequenceWithString:@"AGTAGATTTGAGGT"];
>      	
> 	return [theReturn autorelease];
>  }
>
>
> Sound fine with me, just checking if that is what you had in mind :)

Yep, exactly, though I'm just wondering if you the [theReturn 
autorelease] is approriate here because it is already given 
"autoreleased" by the factory object isn't it? Or can you just call 
autorelease as many times as you want on an object, never knew that...
Alex

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