[Bioperl-l] Philosophy, BioPerl Object Creation

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

In related note: I wanted to inherit directly from a non-bioperl class
and merge it with the rest of bioperl and came up with this:

package Bio::WebAgent;
use vars qw(@ISA);
use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Bio::Root::Root;

@ISA = qw(LWP::UserAgent Bio::Root::Root);

sub new {
    my $class = shift;

    my $self = $class->SUPER::new();
    while( @_ ) {
	my $key = shift;
        $key =~ s/^-//;
        $self->$key(shift);
    }

    return $self; # success - we hope!

}

This actually faster than using _rearrange. In some of my tests old_new
versus new_new was 19:14 seconds, sometimes less.

Can anyone point out why this would be bad and perhaps show me a better
way of doing the same thing.

	-Heikki




On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 11:32, Matthew Pocock wrote:
> > argument list intact. Also, parameters may be used
> > in more than one 
> > level in the hierarchy.
> > 
> > 	-hilmar
> 
> That seems a little rude. Can we get around this a bit
> by accessing the parameter via an accessor? e.g.
> 
> my $self = my_super->new(@_);
> // pigColor was an argument but I need to know it to
> // set myself up - use an accessor
> my $pigColor = $self->pigColor();
> 
> Matthew
> 
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