On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > At the moment I want to understand how to patch up the fuzzy k-means > code in this regard -- will probably switch to something slightly less > state-dependent than asFormatString() as a key and be done with it for > the moment.
After looking at it a bit, it seems like the most expedient solution would be to add 'name' back into the Vector class. Whether it needs to be part of equals(), I don't really know at this point, but I suspect not. It doesn't appear that asFormatString() will do the job simply because it's just an alternate representation of the entire vector, not an identifier. Not sure what the history with this is here, but why asFormatString() as opposed to toString()? It seems that the decorator alternative would involve something like a NamedVector class that adds an id, implements Vector and holds any type of Vector to with it delegates all calls to. This might work, well but require more extensive modifications to the clustering code. Does anyone else think this is an approach worth exploring? Does the Vector really need a String name or could it simply hold an integer or long id? Drew
