[Bioperl-l] New Annotation interfaces!

[Hilmar Lapp]

Ewan Birney wrote:
> > >
> > > if (ref($thingy) eq "HASH") {....}
> > >
> > > Ok, it's not all that nice but it works.
> > >
> >
> > Sure, if the ref wasn't reblessed. I think what I really meant is
> > whether you really need to allow for arbitrary hash refs here, as
> > there is some (not a terrible though) penalty in code sanity (and
> > simplicity in traversing the tree).
> 
> The reason why I like arbitary hash-refs in there is because a object
> might want to declare a more nested structured (needing hash-refs) without
> having to make an additional placeholder object just for the hash-tree.
> 
> I'd like to stick with this.

Sure. BTW I like your proposal, too, even though it might not have
been obvious ... after all, 6 months after we started that thread
a train ride triggered the whole miracle ...

	-hilmar
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