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

[Lincoln Stein]

Was there any further discussion on this?  I do use display_id() in the 
Bio::Graphics module, and am confused about the distinction between 
display_id() and seqname().

Lincoln

On Thursday 26 September 2002 04:15 pm, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> 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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Lincoln Stein
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