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Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] Test if cell exists by ID



On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:54:26AM -0700, Phil Mercurio wrote:
> I had a feeling I was experiencing conceptual difficulties,
> thanks for the explanation. Benja.  Tuomas also mentioned
> that this is still in flux.  The approach given below for
> comparing against nextID would work for now, except that
> I assume this won't help in detecting cells that used to
> exist but have been deleted.

Deletion, as it stands, means "break all connections". 

> There's a method called c() in ZZDimSpace
> that does what I was looking for, except that it's
> private.  But a ZZDimSpace-level solution would be fine for me,
> any chance this method could be made public (and
> maybe renamed)?

I'd prefer having package access, and a ZZKludge class 
which would call and return this.

As an aside: why do you want to know whether a cell existed?

	Tuomas