[Bioperl-l] 'virtual' seqs

[Elia Stupka]

> I guess so - if someone can use it would be happy to have the
> implementation - you comfortable with that?  Isn't the laziness an
> implementation issue or do you have to explicitly tell the object when you
> want it to retrieve the full data rather than just on the first seq()
> call?

Our Seqs are already lazy, I think this is quite different because it
changes the behaviour of the length method, so it's not "just" a lazy seq
object...

Elia

> 
> 
> > I think we should have sequence
> > > objects which
> > > can handle this - they would have a length, but seq() would warn and
> > > return undef.  We need one that would implement Bio::Seq::RichSeqI
> > > interface - call it VirtualRichSeq ? Perhaps we'll need the equivalent
> > > PrimaryVirtualSeq and VirtualSeq?
> > >
> > > Can someone think of a better name, I don't want to confuse
> > > with Ensembl
> > > VirtualXX objects?  This would be implemeted in Bio::Seq:: namespace.
> > >
> > > -jason
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jason Stajich
> > > Duke University
> > > jason at cgt.mc.duke.edu
> > >
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