[Bioperl-l] Proposed name change for 1.3 (1.4)

Ewan Birney birney at ebi.ac.uk
Tue Feb 25 22:03:33 EST 2003


On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 09:15  AM, Ewan Birney wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> I agree. Bio::Annotation::Set is a lot better naming style.
> >
> >
> > Ok. I now declare that, if in doubt people should not put "fully
> > qualified" names into sub name spaces, but let the directory structure
> > indicate the name.
> >
> 
> So, if in doubt then you do?
> 
> Seems we have 2 votes for (Ewan, Heikki) and 2 votes against (Hilmar, 
> Lincoln).
> 
> Can't we agree that interfaces be meaningfully qualified even in the 
> absence of the namespace, and implementations are free to be named 
> ambiguously with the namespace doing the disambiguation?

;) Ok. 

Whatever. I dont really mind either way. I think we need a default
position though, and no matter what people say, I find

  Bio::Seq::SeqI

just too complicated





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