[Open-bio-l] Re: [Bioperl-l] seq namespace method

[Ewan Birney]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Michael L. Heuer wrote:

> 
> Hello Ewan,
> 
> You seem to have lost the 1 : [1-many] cardinality here -- was that
> intentional?

I was never a fan of this, claiming that the 1-->Many is better handled by 
the DBLink system already in place. 


objects in my view should have one identifier, which is the
authority.namespace they came from...



> 
>    michael
> 
> 
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Ewan Birney wrote:
> 
> >
> > I would claim the right pattern here is to have
> >
> >
> >   Bio::IdentifiableI
> >
> > which Bio::PrimarySeqI inheriets from and Bio::PrimarySeq implements.
> >
> >
> >   Bio::IdentifiableI would have slots for namespace, version, id (NB
> > **no** type) and would be compatiable with the 13C naming convention
> > thingy to produce I3C style names (so it might also have "authority" as a
> > slot).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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