Bioperl: Bioperl 0.6.1 release

[Ewan Birney]

On Wed, 10 May 2000, James Gilbert wrote:

> > classifiication() now returns the same list as before, to preserve
> > backwards compatibility, but (thanks to Hilmar for
> > 
> >      Backward compatibility is generally a good thing, but shouldn't dominate
> >      design, at least IMHO.
> 
> >      I think a method for set/get that does not return
> >      the same array as it requires is not well designed.
> Yes, but this doesn't happen.
> 
> >      So, I think either
> >      subspecies must be set through sub_species($subspecies) only, or if it
> >      allowed to be passed to classification(), it
> >      should be returned there as well.
> 
> I decided that it was cleaner to get and set
> subspecies (which is only occasionally available)  
> through the sub_species() method, and keep species
> and genus as the first and second elements of the
> classification() array (since these are almost
> always available).

This agrees with my in-built design prejuidice. Many thanks hilmar for
finding the bug. I hope you don't mind that james fixed a slightly
different way.


Good to see the 0.6.1 release heading out of the door ;)


 > 
> 	James
> 
> James G.R. Gilbert
> The Sanger Centre
> Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
> Hinxton
> Cambridge                        Tel: 01223 494906
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