[Bioperl-l] SeqIO parsing

[Ewan Birney]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> 
> 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?

Aha. This is quite sneaky. I like it. Will do.


> 
> 	-hilmar
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