[Biojava-dev] Gaps and EmptyAlphabet

[mark.schreiber at group.novartis.com]

The gap symbol getMatches method returns the EmptyAlphabet.

This has the slightly weird result that the gap symbol doesn't match 
itself!? I'm sure Bertrand Russell could write a book on that. I just 
think it's plain weird. Wouldn't it be better if the getMatches for a gap 
returned an FiniteAlphabet containing only the gap symbol??

- Mark

Mark Schreiber
Principal Scientist (Bioinformatics)

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