RE: [Biojava-l] Location interface

2001-04-30 Thread Mr. A.R.N. Tivey
> JSR #14, > http://java.sun.com/aboutJava/communityprocess/jsr/jsr_014_gener.html, will > provide parameterized types like C++ templates that should allow you to do > some of what you want. There still wouldn't be operator overloading but you > could define plus() and minus() methods. I couldn'

RE: [Biojava-l] Location interface

2001-04-30 Thread Forsch, Dan
: Matthew Pocock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 6:15 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [Biojava-l] Location interface > > The rational behind moving the binary operators is that Java has > extremely poor support for double-binding, and t

[Biojava-l] Location interface

2001-04-30 Thread Matthew Pocock
Hi. Greg Cox, Thomas Down and I discussed the Location interface at the BioJava boot-camp. The tutorials also turned up a number of Location-realted bugglets. The upshot is that the code needs to be re-vamped. I have volunteered to do the work, and wherever possible you should be unaware of t