On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:37 AM, Hervé Pagès <hpa...@fhcrc.org> wrote:
> Hi Vince, > > > On 04/10/2014 08:16 AM, Vincent Carey wrote: > >> seems like something we should use more routinely, and it was not >> straightforward for me to find it in IRanges >> > > I could do that but... > > Good object design would be that if a developer wants its class to > support the metadata() getter and setter, s/he should extend the > Annotated class defined in IRanges. This class has only 1 slot, the > metadata slot, and a very simple API: just metadata(). So by extending > it, metadata() will work out-of-the-box on his/her objects. This avoids > code duplication and ensures that the metadata() getter and setter > behave consistently on all objects. > > I can see that a developer could be reluctant to depend on IRanges just > to inherit the Annotated class though. But maybe this means that the > Annotated class and the metadata() generic are in the wrong package? > > thanks for the comment; i can deal with the situation as is. > Cheers, > H. > > >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >> >> > -- > Hervé Pagès > > Program in Computational Biology > Division of Public Health Sciences > Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center > 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M1-B514 > P.O. Box 19024 > Seattle, WA 98109-1024 > > E-mail: hpa...@fhcrc.org > Phone: (206) 667-5791 > Fax: (206) 667-1319 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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