[Bioperl-l] SeqIO parsing

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 02:57 PM, Ewan Birney wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
>
>> but always throw no matter what. Which is OK I think.
>>
>> Likewise, warn() only warns, and does not die.
>
> Except that the whole point of warn is that you can set it at a 
> per-object
> level to throw or to stack trace etc via verbosity.
>
>
> In fact, that's the whole point of $obj->verbose(1);
>
>
> I know Jason likes this, so it is worth doing....

sure - no question - my point was different: what if you hit a call 
to throw()/warn() and friends in an interface, not in an 
implementation. Then I say you have to live with the fact that 
verbose() is not honoured, which my point was should be fine. This 
means, you wouldn't need verbose() implemented in RootI (or 
implemented such that throw() always throws, and warn always warns, 
which is what a return of 0 would do.

Conversely, if you throw() in an implementation inheriting from 
Root.pm, then you can influence by calling verbose(...).

Am I confusing or missing something?

	-hilmar
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