[Biojava-dev] [Biojava-l] BioJava Hackathon - Day 1

[Andy Yates]

This somewhat targets what this new version should be about; making  
the most of Java5+ features (Iterable & generics being the first  
things that spring to mind).


On 19 Jan 2010, at 05:45, Richard Holland wrote:

> Good point - Iterable would probably be fine.
>
> On 19 Jan 2010, at 05:02, Michael Heuer wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Richard Holland wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Also by making the new SymbolList implement the standard List
>>> interface from Collections, it can be used in nice Java shortcuts  
>>> such
>>> as the new foreach loops, and standard iterators can be used  
>>> (instead of
>>> the current SymbolListIterator method). Collections API can also  
>>> be used
>>> then to do things like subsets or reverses.
>>
>> Is this a good idea?  It might preclude some efficient implementation
>> strategies, such as ParallelArray from JSR166
>>
>> http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/jsr166/dist/extra166ydocs/extra166y/ParallelArray.html
>>
>> Would Iterable be sufficient enough?
>>
>> Also, List indexing is not compatible with typical sequence feature
>> indexing.
>>
>>  michael
>>
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