[Bioperl-l] SeqFeature::Generic

[Ewan Birney]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> 1) There was a bug in frame() disallowing a value of 0 and allowing instead 3,
> in contract to the doc that says: 0,1,2. I don't know whom this affected,
> frame 0 shouldn't be so rare. Anyway, it's fixed now. (I.e., a value of 3 is
> disallowed!)

Good fix!

> 2) For several extensions of SeqFeature::Generic I found it useful to have the
> possibility for adding more description/annotation. I therefore added a method
> annotation() to SeqFeature::Generic, which returns (and sets) a
> Bio::Annotation object. Note that this slot is not allocated by default but
> only when you actually request it, so it doesn't hurt memory-wise.
> 

This is ok. There could be an argument that we should have a derived
object for this to prevent the SeqFeature::Generic object growing out of
hand, but that doesn't make great sense....



> Any objections?
> 
> 	Hilmar
> 
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