[Biojava-l] Re: [Biojava-dev] Feature at position 0

[Thomas Down]

On 14 May 2004, at 11:21, Matthew Pocock wrote:

> I think for the sake of useability, we could either relax the location 
> constraint to allow point locations at 0, or in the sp parser, 
> re-write these as <1 - what do people think?

Ugh.

I'm not sure "<1" will appeal to people who are into round-tripping.

I think my (slightly) favoured option would be to remove the location 
constraints on Features completely.  I know this is pretty horrible, 
but off-sequence locations do seem to be things people use.

I'd definitely vote against special-casing locations at position 0 -- 
that just feels like a slippery slope.  What happens when people want 
to model larger leader-peptides in this way?  If we're going to allow 
off-sequence locations at all we should bite the bullet and allow them 
without restriction.

*sigh*

       Thomas