[Bioperl-l] New Annotation interfaces!

[Hilmar Lapp]

Chris Mungall wrote:
> 
> >
> > The difficulty I see here is how do you cleanly and generically
> > tell apart an object from a hash reference in Perl? ref($thingy)
> > is true and a string in
> 
> if (ref($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).

	-hilmar
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