[MOBY-dev] Migration of database to new API

[mark wilkinson]

I strongly disagree in return :-)

If I have an object called "sequence" there is no indication in the name that it is a fasta sequence or an embl sequence or a genbank sequence or whatever.  The fact that it is called sequence-v2 is no more nor less confusing!

(Ben is sitting here beside me in the pub chuckling about the dangers of mixing semantics meaning into names :-) )

M


-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Senger <senger at ebi.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 02:06:55 
To:markw at illuminae.com,       Core developer announcements <moby-dev at portal.open-bio.org>
Cc:mobydev <moby-dev at biomoby.org>
Subject: Re: [MOBY-dev] Migration of database to new API

> There is no need for a name change again.  The object will forever be called -v2
> 
> It's just an identifier...
>
   Strongly disagree. The names are visible to people in many clients that
list them. They should be named sensibly. Adding an artificial suffix v2
just without any compelling reasons is a bad design (and there is no
compelling reason for that).
   I will better stop now (you got me agian!¬)...
 
   Martin

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