[Biojava-l] deprecating some SymbolList methods

2002-07-15 Thread Matthew Pocock
Hi All, I hope you are all enjoying your summer holidays. I look forward to seeing some of you at ISMB soon. I was wondering if anybody would object if the subStr and seqString methods of SymbolList were deprecated with a message saying that you should be using Thomas' excelent symbol tokeniz

RE: [Biojava-l] deprecating some SymbolList methods

2002-07-15 Thread Schreiber, Mark
Sounds like a good idea. How about moving those methods to the DNA/RNA/ProteinTools classes where tokenization can be assumed to be from the stated alphabet? - Mark > -Original Message- > From: Matthew Pocock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 16 July 2002 3:53 a.m. > To: [EMA

RE: [Biojava-l] deprecating some SymbolList methods

2002-07-15 Thread David Waring
I would be strongly against it. Deprecating methods will always break people's code. I'm sure it would break some of mine. I find that I am often going between a String and a SymbolList since 1) I work with other peoples non-biojavaized code 2) I work with a database that stores its sequence as va