[Bioperl-l] Re: [BioSQL-l] seqfeature.display_id

[Hilmar Lapp]

It turns out the definition in Bio::SeqFeatureI does state that it 
is a name for the feature,  _not_ the sequence. So the 
implementation is in contradiction to the interface definition and 
to intuition.

	-hilmar

On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 01:04 PM, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> I just realized that display_id() in SeqFeature::Generic is just an 
> alias for seqname(). I thought it's a genuine feature attribute.
>
> This is really bad IMO, because seqname() clearly refers to the 
> attached sequence, whereas display_id is easily mistaken for being 
> a genuine property of the feature (in fact, it may even be useful 
> to have a 'human-readable' name of a feature - but 'display_name' 
> or something similar may be better suited names).
>
> I vote for removing display_id() from SeqFeature::Generic. Who 
> needs to have it named display_id, and cannot call it as seqname()?
>
> 	-hilmar
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