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

[Hilmar Lapp]

I agree with this. That's why I proposed to

1) make the meaning absolutely clear and rename display_id to 
display_name (but keep an undocumented alias)

2) fix the implementation in SeqFeature::Generic to refer to its own 
attribute instead of being an alias for seqname()

Can I take your responses as agreement with me making these changes?

Jason/Heikki, any comment or feeling on this?

	-hilmar

On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 05:25 AM, Ewan Birney wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Lincoln Stein wrote:
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>> 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().
>
> IMNSHO
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> display_id() == thing to be displayed for this object to a user
>
> seqname() == name of sequence attached - possibly better called 
> seq_id or
> seq_accession_number() or something more obviously "real id like".
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