[Bioperl-l] {flush,remove}_<Object>

[Ewan Birney]

On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> The remove/flush methods for array attributes setting those to empty 
> arrays I think all return TRUE (the value 1). (Why are there 
> remove_XXX and flush_XXX? which is preferred? Shall we fix this?)
> 
> ChrisZ actually started implementing that in a way that I find 
> potentially quite useful: remove_XXXX resets the array, but returns 
> the previous content. Allegedly, Lincoln uses this style too ...
> 
> Should we adopt this as the new convention, and fix existing methods 
> to comply? I'd vote yes.

Sounds good. Bonus points that in most cases the list return evaluted in a
scalar context will return true (though not of course in all
cases). Should we start building up a list of "conventions changed in
1.2?" in cvs?



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