[Bioperl-l] Identifiable and Describable

[Matthew Pocock]

 --- Ewan Birney <birney@ebi.ac.uk> wrote: > On Wed,
24 Jul 2002, Matthew Pocock wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Is this arguing for a tiny encoding interface with
> a single method that 
> > eats an identifier and makes a string?
> > 
> 
> THis si the visitor pattern sort of idea I proposed.
> It is a little bit of
> object overkill, but does lay things out explicitly.
> 
> 

Yes - quite similar. Interface-based design-pattern
lore would sudgest that good designs have one
interface for each part of the system that can be
implemented in more than one way. Keep the interfaces
lean and focused and the polymorphisms take care of
your extensibility and adaptability for you. Somewhere
between filoe-pastry and a lump of melted beads ;-)

> 
> > Matthew

See you at BOSC


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