[Biococoa-dev] NSMutableData vs malloc

[Koen van der Drift]

On Jul 17, 2005, at 12:02 PM, Charles Parnot wrote:

> I don't see why we can't keep simply
>
> + (id) symbolForChar: (unsigned char)aSymbol
>
> There is a direct correspondance between BCSymbol and char, so a  
> BCSymbol is defined by a char, not a string. I should have a look  
> at the code to help better, but maybe there is some confusion  
> happpeing when switching between NSString and char* and char...
>


We now use the symbolString to retrieve info from the propertiesDict,  
eg:

         symbolInfo = [[[BCAminoAcid aaPropertiesDict] objectForKey: 
[self symbolString]] copy];


And it is also used in BCCodon.

So we might need to keep the symbolString around, otherwise we need  
to create the NSString on the fly everytime.


cheers,

- Koen.