[Bioperl-l] OntologyTermI

[Ewan Birney]

On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Chris Mungall wrote:

> 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

This is pretty sensible. I guess this is now up to the implementors -
Hilmar - if you or someone in your group wants to get stuck in there with
"dumb" terms and ideally a Graph object, I think that would be great.