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Subject: Re: enhanced seq record
From: "Brian McAllister" <[email protected]>
To: Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:13:12 -0500
>>> On 1/28/2006 at 0:25:46 +0100, Benjamin Franksen wrote:

  > (2) No VALn fields. They are of limited use, anyway. Mostly they are
  > needed in order to provide constant input, i.e. if the INPn link is
  > empty. It is true that input links can hold a constant value, too, but

This is a feature that I use frequently.  In fact, we probably have more
seq links that write constants than ones that actually fetch from a link.

I think it makes the intent of the database much clearer if you have this
field rather than putting constants into in-link fields and the storage
overhead seems trivial.

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Brian McAllister                                   Senior Software Engineer
[email protected]                      Bates Research & Engineering Center
(617) 253-9537                                                Middleton, MA

References:
enhanced seq record Benjamin Franksen

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