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AURORA: Add comment to GFF4File explaining what a generic is
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DrMcCoy committed Nov 10, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ class GFF4Struct;
* a human-readable string. A collection of currently known field values
* and their meanings can be found in gff4fields.h.
*
* Unlike GFF3, GFF4 has a new concept, the generic. A generic is a field
* of variable type. I.e. a field can contain any other type. A list of
* generics can even contain different types at different indices.
*
* GFF V4.0/V4.1 files come in a multitude of types (ARE, DLG, ...), each
* with its own 4-byte type ID ('ARE ', 'DLG ', ...). When specified in
* the GFF4File constructor, the loader will enforce that it matches, and
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