[Biojava-l] Simple alignment

[Matthew Pocock]

Doesn't TreeMap extend/implement Map? Is there a reason you can't just 
pass a TreeMap into the constructor?

Matthew

Schreiber, Mark wrote:

>Robin -
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>How about overloading the constructor?  That way if you provide a TreeMap the result is ordered. If not you get what you get. Many classes are dependent on SimpleAlignment so it may not pay to change it too much.
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>- Mark
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>From: Emig, Robin [mailto:Robin.Emig at maxygen.com] 
>Sent: Mon 15/09/2003 3:04 p.m. 
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>	        Is there any objection to making SimpleAlignment take a TreeMap instead of a simple Map? The reason is that order of the sequences in the alignment is often of importance. I suppose the alternative is to create a new alignment called OrderedAlignment.
>	-Robin
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