[Biojava-l] Going in circles (again)!

[Mark Schreiber]

Hi -

I am in the process of making CircularLocations more compatible with the
biojava 1.2 api. I have made good progress but I have run aground with
LocationTools.handleDecorations() which doesn't.

Is this method intended as a hospital pass? or should it be used by
decorated methods when performing logical operations?

In biojava 1.1 the old CircularRangeLocation and CircularPointLocation
classes implemented the old requirements for Union/Intersection methods
etc, is there any reason why these could not be used in LocationTools.

Also would the LocationTools.isDecorated() method be more efficient if it
had the following signature

protected static boolean isDecorated(Location loc){
  return (loc instanceof AbstractLocationDecorator);
}

Mark
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