[Bioperl-l] Proposed name change for 1.3 (1.4)

[Aaron J Mackey]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> Can't we agree that interfaces be meaningfully qualified even in the
> absence of the namespace, and implementations are free to be named
> ambiguously with the namespace doing the disambiguation?

We might, if you could rephrase that last sentence so that lesser mortals
could understand the issue.  This is the second nearly-incomprehensible
post on the topic of SeqFeatures, AnnotationCollections and Locations
(that *is* what this was all supposed to be about, right? The first
nearly-incomprehensible post was Ewan's original proposal)

> I'd rather have the toolkit have less optical appeal than less
> practical usability for programmers.

And I'd rather have it be comprehensible by more than 5 people in the
entire world.  I'm willing to write the documentation, but I think we need
a bit more pseudocode for me to understand the issues.  I'm trying not to
be annoying about this, but hopefully by (more) clearly expressing
ourselves about the proposed changes, we can get more input (or at least
agreement).  In the perl6-lang mailing list spirit, I'm willing to act as
the official "I will document this explicitly and completely so that no
one will ever have another question about it" person, and in similar
spirit I now call upon the list to better inform me (perhaps even
personally, off-list).  I will then prepare a summary (which will no doubt
illustrate the issues I still don't grok), to be (re)hashed on the list.

I await your eager words,

-Aaron

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