[Bioperl-l] UniGene modules now in CVS

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

Lincoln Stein wrote:

>  > which is somewhat redundant. A more generic way would be:
>  >
>  > $io = Bio::ClusterIO::IO->new(-file=>'myfile',
>  >                                -format=>'unigene');
>  > $clu = $str->next();
> 
> Yes, but Bio::SeqIO uses next_seq().

I know, but in my opinion it should be next(). Attaching the object type to
the method name is again that kind of redundancy, I'd like not to have.
Having a generic method name makes it easier to inherit and use the classes. 

I've done this already in Bio::Variation::IO which inherits a lot from
Bio::SeqIO a but uses read() and write().


We could add read() and write() as an alternative to SeqIO so that all IO
classes could use the same method names.
	-Heikki

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