[Bioperl-l] Bio::FeatureHolderI

[Ewan Birney]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> You could clearly do that via -filter. Are you suggesting -location 
> as a parameter as well?
> 
> The problem with supporting internal filters (implemented by the 
> feature holder) vs external filters (you supply the filtering method 
> or object) is that internal filters can become unnecessarily complex 
> fairly quickly if they are to be flexible.

But the benefit about internal filters is that it allows different
implemetnations to optimise it differently (in particular in teh SQL
issueing or something similar)