[Biojava-l] Possible minor change before 1.0

[Thomas Down]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 05:53:04PM +0100, Simon Brocklehurst wrote:
> 
> 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.

That's an alternative option.  I'm just slightly reluctant since
  a) This is an interface, which potentially quite a lot of
     people will eventually want to implement.

  b) We're still pre-1.0.  I'd quite like to see 1.0 land up with
     a set of core interfaces which are as cruft-free as possible,
     and those can then serve as a baseline for future evolution
     (with maximum effort made towards compatibility).


But I'll go the deprecation route if enough people are already
relying heavily on this interface.

Thomas.
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