[Bioperl-l] Bio::FeatureHolderI

[Ewan Birney]

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> I'd suggest adding this alongside AnnotatableI. The benefit is not 
> new functionality, but rather imposing a more rigorous and fostering 
> a more consistent API structure on those classes that have features.
> 
> I have the module ready to commit, and I'd adjust Bio::Seq and 
> SeqFeature::Generic to implement this (clearly not very difficult). 
> What do people thing? Core guys? This should be very similar to the 
> biojava model, but I haven't checked that for a while.

I like this. We are implicitly heading closer and closer to the OMG
LSR/BioCorba as well. Probably a good sign.