Fine. They stay in. Matthew
Keith James wrote: >>>>>>"David" == David Waring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> > > David> I would be strongly against it. > > [...] > > I agree with David. Please don't do it. I haven't seen anyone offer a > reason for deprecating the methods yet. A quick straw poll here found > that everyone I asked expected these methods (or their equivalents) to > be where they are. > > David> I'm not sure why you would want to deprecate methods that > David> are as obvious to have on a SymbolList. I agree that the > David> Tokenization code is a great way to handle the intricacies > David> of multiple alphabets. Yes it is possible to use this > David> whenever you want to get a String, after all that is what > David> AbstractSymbolList does! I would say that seqString() is as > David> obviously necessary to an object representing a DNA or > David> protein sequence, as toString() is to an Object. > > Exactly. It will always end up being implemented somewhere - where > better than in AbstractSymbolList?. SymbolLists and Sequences are > being stringified all over the place here e.g. for peptides and oligos > -> JTextFields etc it's the quickest way. > > Keith > _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
