[Bioperl-l] Bio::Ontology overhaul

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 06:00  PM, Paul Edlefsen wrote:

> Regardless of whether <whatever>IdentifiableI is ever adopted, it 
> seems that some consistency is worth striving for.  It's really not a 
> big deal if it's hard to change, but since you are soliciting 
> comments, my comment is to wonder why we would have TermI's identifier 
> be unique and OntologyI's identifier be arbitrary, when OntologyI's 
> name is unique.
>

Hmm - you do have a point here. I probably wrongly think that people 
will read the documentation of methods before assuming arbitrary things 
about them ...

So, maybe I should rename identifier() to something that suggests more 
arbitrariness?

In fact, I could get rid of it altogether; it is largely an artifact 
from my ill-conceived OntologyStore attempt to remove the memory cycles.

Does anyone want OntologyI::identifier() (whether under this or another 
name)?

	-hilmar
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