[Bioperl-l] out or toString method

Ewan Birney birney@ebi.ac.uk
Sat, 8 Dec 2001 09:33:48 +0000 (GMT)


On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Lincoln Stein wrote:

> It's very easy to abuse string overloading.  I abuse it all the time, and 
> usually regret it when I do.

I'd second that (famous AcePerl bugs due to string overloading over
here...)



> 
> Lincoln
> 
> On Friday 07 December 2001 11:43, Ewan Birney wrote:
> > I am not against this, but I have seen this sort of thing get abused.
> >
> >
> > Are you suggested adding the appropiate to_string methods across all of
> > bioperl?
> >
> >
> >
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