[Biojava-l] Alignment.sequenceIterator()

[Matthew Pocock]

Schreiber, Mark wrote:
> I may be missing the issue here but why not make a SymbolList iterator.
> If a Sequence is added to the Alignment it will forever be a Sequence so
> a quick instanceof test when retreiving SymbolLists from the iterator
> could automagically turn it back into a Sequence again.
> 
> - Mark
> 

After talking with several people on chat and e-mails, we've plumped for 
migrating to Iterator symbolListIterator() that returns an iterator over 
each symbol list in the alignment. I hope this change doesn't cause too 
many upsets.

Matthew

> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Matthew Pocock [mailto:matthew_pocock@yahoo.co.uk] 
>>Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2002 11:20 p.m.
>>To: biojava-l@biojava.org
>>Subject: [Biojava-l] Alignment.sequenceIterator()
>>
>>
>>Hi.
>>
>>Did we come to some agreement over 
>>Alignment.sequenceIterator()? I'm in 
>>the process of implementing an alignment where there is no 
>>sensible way 
>>to view the entries in the alignment as sequences - they are symbol 
>>lists in this case. So, did we reach a consensus about what the 
>>signature of this method should become?
>>
>>Matthew
>>
>>ps We should realy set up that devel list
>>
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