From: Rajarshi G. <rx...@ps...> - 2006-06-17 14:12:31
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On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 16:05 +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote: > On Saturday 17 June 2006 16:02, Rajarshi Guha wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 15:46 +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote: > > > Do we really need this check? We leave a lot of checking to the user in > > > other places by policy too... > > > > It is a useful utility method. Why not keep it in there and note it as > > an expensive method? > > Mark the addAtom() as expensive?? Sorry I misread the original post. What I wanted to say is that performing the check could be made optional and if specified (via a boolean for example) it would result in addAtom being an expensive (in terms of time) method. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajarshi Guha <rx...@ps...> <http://jijo.cjb.net> GPG Fingerprint: 0CCA 8EE2 2EEB 25E2 AB04 06F7 1BB9 E634 9B87 56EE ------------------------------------------------------------------- All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities. -- Dawkins |