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The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL)
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Explain 'hasProperty' vs. 'property' in Conventions #374

Closed jakebeal closed 3 years ago

jakebeal commented 4 years ago

I don't think I understand what the distinction is between when we use the hasProperty naming convention versus using the property naming conventions. We do not currently explain in the Conventions section of the specification, and it seems to me that we may not be consistent in how we are applying it.

I have three theories:

  1. hasProperty is for child objects, property is for TopLevel objects. Contradicted by hasSequence and hasModel on Component.
  2. hasProperty is for child objects, property is for referenced objects. Contradicted by hasSequence and hasModel on Component.
  3. hasProperty is for pointers to to class Property, property is for pointers to objects with a different class. This one seems to be consistent.

Can somebody please confirm if this is correct, and then we can add it to the Conventions section?

cjmyers commented 4 years ago

Yes, I agree that (3) is my understanding too.