[Bioperl-l] RootI->debug method

[Ewan Birney]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Jason Eric Stajich wrote:

> I'd like to propose a new method to RootI called 'debug' or 'debug_print'
> which will print the input string to STDERR if $self->verbose > 0.
> 
> People should be able to embed debugging messages in their code and have
> it turned off or on based on the verbose flag without having to do all the
> protecting themselves (ala ->
> if ( $self->verbose ) {
> 	$self->warn("Message for debugging");
> }
> 
> 
> Sound okay?

Sounds great. 

I'd also like to suggest a 

  ->deprecrated("meesage")

method that works like warn, but indicates the line number of the calling
function. helpful as we deprecate functions and want to give client code a
straight to where to edit this deprecated function


> 
> -- 
> Jason Stajich
> Duke University
> jason@cgt.mc.duke.edu
> 
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