[Biojava-l] Newick/Nexus processing of non-binary trees

[Richard Holland]

If that's true, sounds like it's broke. Is the old code easily  
modified to suit arbitrary numbers of children?

On 6 Nov 2009, at 13:26, Tiago Antão wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Either I am looking for too much time to the code or it seems to me
> that the current implementation only supports binary trees (ie, trees
> with 2 children).
>
> I have tested with:
> tree tree6 = (1,2,3);
>
> And I get only 2 edges. The edge pointing to "1" gets lost.
> Inspecting the old code, this seems to be how it is implemented.
>
> In the case I am correct, this renders the whole tree parser somewhat
> useless in its current form, as most phylo trees are not binary only.
>
> The other two bugs are now corrected, but this is much more serious,  
> me thinks.
>
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