[Bioperl-l] Re: Automatic generation of set and get methods

[Ewan Birney]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Heikki Lehvaslaiho wrote:

> Hilmar is here restateing a long standing opinion of the core group that 
> autogenerating methods tends to lead into problems sooner or later in 
> the life cycle of modules and that their use is therefore strongly 
> discouraged.

Or at least stick-in-the-muds like me and Hilmar and Heikki. I suspect 
Linclon is ok with it.


This is a "to taste" feature of Perl, and I guess we just have to decide. 
I don't like it because it (in my experience) it produces hard-to-find 
bugs which can remain dormant for a while, but... again, I think it is 
just about a general feel of what we would like to do.


I certainly don't see that much sense in destablising massive amount of 
existing code (and *definitely* not as we get close to 1.2).