[Biojava-dev] [Biojava-l] BioJava Hackathon - Day 1

[Richard Holland]

Good point - Iterable would probably be fine.

On 19 Jan 2010, at 05:02, Michael Heuer wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Richard Holland wrote:
> 
>> ...
>> 
>> Also by making the new SymbolList implement the standard List
>> interface from Collections, it can be used in nice Java shortcuts such
>> as the new foreach loops, and standard iterators can be used (instead of
>> the current SymbolListIterator method). Collections API can also be used
>> then to do things like subsets or reverses.
> 
> Is this a good idea?  It might preclude some efficient implementation
> strategies, such as ParallelArray from JSR166
> 
> http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/jsr166/dist/extra166ydocs/extra166y/ParallelArray.html
> 
> Would Iterable be sufficient enough?
> 
> Also, List indexing is not compatible with typical sequence feature
> indexing.
> 
>   michael
> 
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