[Biojava-l] Possible minor change before 1.0

[Simon Brocklehurst]

Thomas Down wrote:

> Would people object to me changing a method in SequenceIterator
> as follows
>
>   public Sequence nextSequence();
>
> to
>
>   public Sequence next();
>
> Let me know if this is going to cause big problems, or if
> you object to this (ab)use of the iterator pattern.

Any reason not to simply deprecate nextSequence() and add next() ?

One of the advantages of Java for developing apis is that you don't
actually have to keep breaking code, especially for this kind of
"tidying up" of method names.

Simon
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Simon M. Brocklehurst, Ph.D.
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Cambridge Antibody Technology
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