[Bioperl-l] parameter/method naming conventions

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

Allen,

All public constructors really should be using dashed parameters.
Changing that would break every bioperl script in the world.

Could you provide a list of modules which use non-dashed parameters.
I'd be curious to have a look.

	-Heikki

On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 05:43, Allen Day wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Hilmar has been cleaning up the get/set method names to make them 
> consistent across the Bio::* classes, and I was wondering what can be done 
> about parameter conventions, such as those passed to new().  It looks like 
> some of the modules are using non-dashed parameters:
> 
> Class->new(a=>1,b=>2)
> 
> some are using dashed parameters:
> 
> Class->new(-a=>1,-b=>2)
> 
> and some can accept either.  It isn't always clear to me what form to pass
> without poring over the manpage for the details.
> 
> How do people feel about stripping out leading dashes?  I wasn't too 
> unhappy with this until I've started using 
> Class::MakeMethods::Emulator::MethodMaker to (among other things) create 
> all my get/set methods.
> 
> perl -e "sub -function(){}" #error
> 
> Unfortunately, method names can't start with dashes. One of the nice
> things with C::M::E::M is you can just pass a list of fields for which
> get/set methods will be created, and the method names can conform to
> whatever convention we like based on the field name.
> 
> -Allen
> 
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