[Bioperl-l] OntologyTermI

[Chris Mungall]

what about cyclical references? do we really want to go mucking around
with the WeakRef module?

in the current GO object model, Terms are dumb, all the smarts are in the
graph object

so you say

$graph->get_children($term)

rather than

$term->children()

which i prefer anyway

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Kris Boulez wrote:

> Quoting Lincoln Stein (lstein@cshl.org):
> > In a classic "have your cake and eat it too" compromise, we could have a NodeI
> > interface that Bio::Ontology::Term can choose to implement.  Methods are:
> >
> > 	children()		# return NodeI children
> > 	parents()		# return NodeI parents
> > 	all_children()	# return all NodeI children
> > 	all_parents()	# return all NodeI parents
> >
> I would be very much intrested in such methods. Bio::Structure now
> has a set of self-grown methods like these.
>
> Some time ago Jason mentioned to me Tree-DAG_Node. That version (1.04)
> seemed to do most of what is needed, but it wasn't -w clean.
>
> Kris,
>