This is where the subject becomes murky & will probably mean that any code written for equals() & hashcode() will have to take them into account where present. However Sequence compound identity would still be available from another method but this will require an extension of the Sequence interface
Andy On 10 Mar 2011, at 12:22, Francois Le Fevre wrote: > This could be great. But for me equals means only séquence identity and not > features. > > >> Le 10 mars 2011 10:17, "Andy Yates" <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >> I cannot remember the reason why we decided to not include equality for >> these objects. It's not an unreasonable thing to want though. Assuming I >> have some time soon I can have a look into implementing it on >> AbstractCompound, AbstractSequence & the backing stores but it will be some >> time away. If anyone else wants to give it a shot ... :) >> >> Andy >> >> On 10 Mar 2011, at 01:04, Andreas Prlic wrote: >> >> > Hi François, >> > >> > you could try to compare the st... >> >> -- >> Andrew Yates Ensembl Genomes Engineer >> EMBL-EBI Tel: +44-(0)1... >> > -- Andrew Yates Ensembl Genomes Engineer EMBL-EBI Tel: +44-(0)1223-492538 Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Fax: +44-(0)1223-494468 Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK http://www.ensemblgenomes.org/ _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
