[Bioperl-l] is_remote() in Location::Simple

[Ewan Birney]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> I'm not sure this method is a good idea. What does it mean? A
> location has got a method seq_id() naming the sequence it refers
> to; does is_remote() == TRUE mean that the value returned by
> seq_id() is actually wrong? Similarly, if is_remote() == FALSE 
> means that seq_id() returns the right value, why do we need
> is_remote() then? In addition, the documentation doesn't say what
> it should be used for.

I think ->is_remote is useful, otherwise you have to carry around your
parent seqid everywhere. 

I guess the real question - in a split location shared by two sequences,
do we expect the same in-memory object to be attached to both sequences or
not?



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