[Bioc-devel] adding a validity method to a class

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Paul Shannon
<pshannon at systemsbiology.org> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
>  validity=validCytoscapeWindow
>
> rather than
>
>  validity=function(obj) validCytoscapeWindow (obj)
>
> does not work, because the function is not defined at the time the class definition is read.  By including it in a function body, the evaluation is deferred until all the source has been read.  I suspect...
>
> Your second suggestion:
>
>  setValidity("CytoscapeWindowClass", validCytoscapeWindow)
>
> *does* work.  But where should such an assignment be made?  At global scope at the bottom of the class file?

Maybe right after the validCytoscapeWindow function definition

> That seems a little ragged!

You know that old chestnut about one person's ragged be another
person's ... "smooth"?

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Steve Lianoglou
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